Wednesday, 13 April 2016

Personalized learning is a useful tool, not a panacea (Joshua Bleiberg, Brookings)

USA-EDUCATION/TECHNOLOGY REUTERS/Adam Hunger (UNITED STATES) Students at the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School work on their laptops during a class in Dorchester, Massachusetts June 20, 2008. From online courses to kid-friendly laptops and virtual teachers, technology is spreading in America's classrooms, reducing the need for textbooks, notepads, paper and in some cases even the schools themselves. To match feature

The buzz about personalized learning as a strategy for improving education systems seems to grow by the day. Recently, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg announced they were donating their shares in Facebook (worth an estimated $45 billion) to support personalized learning. Research from RAND makes a useful contribution to the literature on this issue.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brown-center-chalkboard/posts/2016/04/13-personalized-learning-bleiberg

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