Post on 13-Apr-2017
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Personalized Learning!Should you care?
Thank you for inviting me
Really, thank you
Personalized Learning:Should you care?
Yes.
Gartner Hype Cycle
The Hype Cycle in Our World
• Somebody comes up with a technology-supported practice that solves an educational problem.
• Somewhere along the line, somebody else figures out that the practice could conceivably help with an institutional problem (which is often not the same problem as the original one).
• Some company figures out that they have a product that vaguely supports the practice, co-opts the name, and sells the product (now completely disconnected from the practice) a magical solution to the institutional problem.
• On some campus somewhere, that company’s sales rep gets a meeting with the provost.
• And then….
Personalized Learning
Personalized learning is really just undepersonalized teaching.
But that doesn’t sound as cool.
Example: Middlebury College
Example: Essex County College
Doing It Right
• Identify the student need to be addressed
• Design the pedagogical structure
• Pick products or technologies based on their ability to support the pedagogy
• Don’t forget faculty training
• Don’t forget technical support
• Be prepared to measure, fail, and iterate
Example: Arizona State University
Questions?
Thank you!
• e-Literate TV personalized learning case studies: http://www.e-literate.tv/series/personalized-learning/
• e-Literate weblog: http://mfeldstein.com/
• This presentation: http://bit.ly/feldstein-itc