Personalized Learning - K-12 Education When learning is personalized, teachers help students find what they like and want to learn about and what their strengths and needs are. Then, the teacher sets up projects that are in line with the students’ interest and with academic standards. This growing movement is focused on changing the learning environment so students can take more ownership of their learning and teachers can work with them to discover their passions and interests. The breakthrough idea in personalized learning is the striking shift in the teacher-student team. In traditional learning, the teacher is the leader and the student is a mostly passive recipient. In personalized learning, the student is the leader, and the teacher is the activator and the advisor. In personalized learning, the teacher-student bond doesn’t matter less; it matters more. Continued Progress: Promising Evidence on Personalized Learning (2015) > Early Progress: Interim Research on Personalized Learning (2014) >
Keeping Competency-Based Programs Relevant Over Time By Brian Fleming, Senior Analyst One of the unique features of competency-based education (CBE) is its ability to offer market-ready academic programs in high demand disciplines that are readily aligned to specific industry needs. Over time, however, this presents a grave vulnerability in this market. From our research, we find a growing number of forward-looking institutions in CBE, including Southern New Hampshire University, Arizona State University, and Purdue University. Basic Strategy In this process, an institution actively and aggressively pursues partners and solicits their input, both at the outset of program design and as a critical component of program improvement. Effort and Impact Keep in mind that forging knowledge-sharing partnerships usually comes with varying degrees of effort and impact, depending on a partner’s position within an industry. Getting Started with Knowledge Sharing Partnerships Stating the benefits of these partnerships is one thing. Eduventures Summit
How To Create a ‘Personal Learning Environment’ to Stay Relevant in 2013 “Our understanding of learning has expanded at a rate that has far outpaced our conceptions of teaching. A growing appreciation for the porous boundaries between the classroom and life experience…has created not only promising changes but also disruptive moments in teaching.” EDUCAUSE Review, 2012 This quote from Disrupting Ourselves: The Problem of Learning in Higher Education (Bass, 2012), gives a good a reason as any for educators to develop a Personal learning Environment [PLE]; a space where we can keep up with the experimental modes of learning, instruction, changing pedagogy and instructional methods that surfaced in 2012. Three Reasons Why Educators Need a PLEEducation is in a phase of disruption (not news to anyone)—and it’s not just a blip or a bump, but is what Harvard professor and author Clayton Christenson describes as disruptive innovation. We need to disrupt ourselves: The model of higher education is at a turning point. Closing Thoughts Resources: Like this:
Office of Accreditation and Assessment @ Teachers College :: Student Learning Student Learning Student learning outcomes are benchmarks for assessing what students know or can accomplish by the time they graduate. Student learning outcomes assessment is accordingly the systematic process of comparing measured outcomes against clearly stated goals for the knowledge, skills, habits of mind, and values that students should acquire during their academic career. Institution-wide assessment is a continuous cycle comprising a variety of activities, including curricular alignment, data collection, analysis, interpretation, reporting, and application of assessment results to both the improvement of instruction and refinement of the assessment process itself. Mission Teachers College, the nation’s oldest and largest graduate school of education, is dedicated to promoting excellence in education, and to overcoming the gap in educational access and achievement between the most and least advantaged groups in this country. Learning Goals and Outcomes
First Steps to Personalize Learning If you wait until you’re ready for personalized learning, you’ll never get started! Our antiquated, factory-style education system is failing our students. It’s also failing our teachers. Personalized learning (PL) is the opportunity our students are waiting for, are craving, and deserve to experience. The work of implementing personalized learning isn’t easy and in fact there may well be resistance from many within the educational system when a district or campus leadership team begins the work of shifting to PL. I’d like to offer a few ideas for how your district can get started along the PL journey. First, seek out local and national organizations that are doing work around personalized learning and find out what resources they have that can help your district implement your vision. For West Oso ISD, our first step was to reach out to a Texas-based education advocacy group called Raise Your Hand Texas (RYHT). The work of PL cannot be carried out by a select few in the organization.
Adaptive learning featured in HarvardX course The Harvard University strategic initiative HarvardX is running a massive open online course (MOOC) that features adaptive learning and assessment algorithms that tailor course material in response to student performance. “Adaptive learning functionality,” through which a computer system can fit learning experiences to the needs of each student, had not been offered previously in a HarvardX course and is featured in a few courses across the edX online learning platform. But it is being used in “Super-Earths and Life,” taught by Harvard’s Phillips Professor of Astronomy Dimitar Sasselov. “Adaptive learning programs are very good at speeding up information acquisition and lengthening retention, as well as individualizing learning to help learners see where they have difficulty,” said Peter K. According to Robert A. And, as VPAL research faculty director and Harvard Government Professor Dustin Tingley said, the possibilities of adaptive learning go beyond simple multiple-choice questions.
Adaptive Learning | WCET Adaptive learning is a form of personalized learning that allows each learner to adjust their pathway to mastery of material based upon sophisticated analytical technologies. Adaptive learning is utilized in flipped classroom settings as well as in fully online courses. Recent pilots by two-year, four-year, graduate, and professional programs are uncovering important lessons about “chunking” or “mapping” course content and linking learning science with curriculum design. Adaptive Learning Unplugged: Why Instructors Matter More than Ever Far from replacing instructors, adaptive learning gives them the data they need to engage students in new ways. Proponents of adaptive learning (AL) technology tout its great value as being its ability to create student-centered classrooms in their most individualized form, shy of limiting the student-to-teacher ratio to 5:1 or less. AL does this by customizing learning based on the knowledge each student brings to the course. While this personalization benefit is certainly seductive, the major question some educators are left with is: Where does this leave the teachers? Sherry Turkle, a clinical psychologist and founding director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, claims that online classrooms limit engagement between students and instructors, and she questions the ability of online education to meet student needs over the long term. Although it can be used in traditional classrooms, AL has been a growing area of interest for online courses. Moving Beyond Facilitation Notes
7 Things You Should Know About Adaptive Learning Adaptive learning is one technique for providing personalized learning, which aims to provide efficient, effective, and customized learning paths to engage each student. Adaptive learning systems use a data-driven approach to adjust the path and pace of learning, enabling the delivery of personalized learning at scale. Adaptive systems can support changes in the role of faculty, enable innovative teaching practices, and incorporate a variety of content formats to support students according to their learning needs. The 7 Things You Should Know About... series from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) provides concise information on emerging learning technologies.
What is Adaptive Learning Anyway? A look at the science and research behind adaptive learning technology and its application in the classroom. This post originally appeared on LinkedIn Pulse on January 5, 2017 and can be viewed here. As emerging technologies and methodologies reshape corporate training, one phrase “adaptive learning” is among the biggest of the buzzwords. I get asked all the time what exactly “adaptive learning” means. Most know the technology has something to do with e-learning, personalized education, micro-learning, badging, gamification, cloud-based learning, etc. Imagine that you could give every learner their own personalized course, made specifically for their strengths, weaknesses, goals, and engagement patterns. That’s adaptive learning. For example, the visual below on the left shows individuals moving through content in a conventional, linear setting. Some distinctions can help clarify the concept. None of this thinking is new.
Overview | State of EdTech | EdSurge Adaptive learning isall about cont Can the industry's most provocative softwaremake a difference in the classroom? Meet Aaron Cheng, my daughter’s sixth-grade math teacher. He’s a smart, technically savvy 28 year-old at the Alameda Community Learning Center, a progressive charter school just fifteen minutes from the tech mecca of San Francisco. I asked him the other day if ACLC was thinking of using any adaptive learning software. “What’s that?” journalist Why is adaptive learning important? 90 sec Thirty five miles south at Joseph Weller Elementary School in Milpitas, everyone knows about adaptive learning. Third-graders from Joseph Weller Elementary School, Milpitas (CA) | Photo Credit: Paty Gomes/EdSurge For us, the decision to use adaptive technology was about helping underachievers catch up. Of the two, Joseph Weller is simultaneously more—and less—like most schools throughout the US. Changing teaching practices. Well, I’ve only been teaching for three years, so I’d be willing to try.
Adaptive Learning Technologies Encompassed by the personalized learning movement and closely linked to learning analytics, adaptive learning refers to the technologies monitoring student progress, using data to modify instruction at any time.[i] Adaptive learning technologies, according to EDUCAUSE, “dynamically adjust to the level or type of course content based on an individual’s abilities or skill attainment, in ways that accelerate a learner’s performance with both automated and instructor interventions.”[ii] Enabled by machine learning, these technologies can adapt to a student in real time, providing both instructors and students with actionable data.
Adaptive Learning: What It Is and How It Works Through the Open Ideas at Pearson series, Pearson has been collaborating with some of the best minds in education to showcase forward-looking, independent insights on the big, unanswered questions in education. The latest report, “Decoding Adaptive,” published in collaboration with the team at EdSurge, is the culmination of six months of research, interviews, and analysis on the current state of digital adaptive learning tools. This story is a summary of that report. A Helpful Starting Point: What Is An Adaptive Learning Tool? Not all learning technology is adaptive. The “Decoding Adaptive” report offers a simple definition of ‘adaptive learning’ technology because the phrase means different things to different practitioners: “Teachers are increasingly attempting to reach all of their students, each of whom have distinct learning needs, with the right learning experience at the right time,” writes education innovator Michael B. “The tools, however, are not a panacea,” he writes.