Personalized Learning
A dream of educators forever, Personalized Learning is reaching a tipping point in terms of the technologies available for realistic implementations. This marketplace opens to data-driven evaluation enabling learning experiences that cater to individual students learning styles and needs.
Opportunity Statement
While the venture prospects for Personalized Learning are awesome in the long term, short- and medium-term opportunities will likely need to be highly strategic, leveraging existing platforms, targeting specific audiences, and delivering focused, accountable results.
Prediction Source(s):
ZDnet – 2011 Top Learning Technologies
Posted in: Emerging Markets Poll
jkotler 3:11 am on September 6, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
While I understand the design challenges personalized learning may bring, I believe that adhering to different learning styles is important, especially in an online environment because it better allows the learner to move through the content at their own pace and to successfully gain the intended knowledge and/or skills.
Patrick Pichette 9:08 am on September 6, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I have mixed feelings about personalized learning. On the one hand, we are catering to students’ needs in order to better prepare them in the construction of their knowledge. On the other hand, we are encouraging one-dimensional learning as some students become dependent on a learning style and cease to develop some skills that would allow them to learn using different approaches. Is it best to develop finely tuned skills using one particular approach or is it better to have many lower-level skills that can be used to propel students further on their learning path? Or is there some magic mid-level point that maximizes knowledge construction while employing a variety of learning techniques?
sophiabb 7:52 pm on September 7, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Yes, there may be design challenges; however, I support personalized learning technologies for the opportunity they present to motivate, challenge, engage and empower learners with learning disabilities/challenges. I believe that they can also be designed to exploit the affordances of web/learn 2.0 technologies so that learners can engage with others, as needed.
jameschen 12:48 am on September 8, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I think this is an interesting venture in educational technology because students will be able to pinpoint the challenges in their learning and have personalized instruction to overcome such challenges. This would be an interesting topic for further investigation, and it ranks as number three on my personal opportunity poll.
bryan 10:19 am on September 8, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
This is extremely relevant to me as this is a very hot topic within all public schools in British Columbia right now.
visramn 11:59 pm on September 8, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
This is also something that is encourages by the Calgary Public Board.
rebecca42 12:13 am on September 9, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I agree for the same reasons Bryan, this is very much an “imminent” issue
Paula Poodwan 2:22 pm on September 9, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I will always be in favor of Personalized Learning as it gives the opportunity for all styles of learners to be able to achieve their best potential at their own pace . However it will need strong commitment on parental involvement, smaller class sizes, more one-on-one teacher and student interaction, and attention to differences in learning styles. It must be difficult to implement this type of learning in a public school with a large class size.
coralk 5:33 pm on September 9, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
The ability to analyze individual student performance data to present the most relevant activities and optimize learning represents the biggest and most exciting shift we will see in education in my opinion. This is number one on my personal opportunity poll.