Archive
component:how.professional-learning
Education Leaders Meet to Discuss PDK/Gallup Poll Results
Education leaders, policymakers, business leaders, educators, and non-profit and community-based organizations will meet in Washington D.C. tomorrow, August 18, 2011 to review the American public's perceptions of the U.S. education system from the present findings of the PDK/Gallup poll.
Adaptive Learning: Key to Customization
Customized learning, driven by adaptive engines emerging from three innovation pathways, will accelerate achievement and boost completion rates.
The Future of Learning: Personalized, Adaptive, and Competency-Based
A Getting Smart white paper on the shift to digital, highly personalized and competency-based future of learning, and how Intelligent Adaptive Learning™ approximates human levels of coaching for ultimate personalized learning.
Promoting Quality Online Learning
Fordham is launching a series of working papers on digital learning. Rick Hess makes an important contribution with the first paper focused on quality
Motivational Profiles
Mining the combined data from home and school will yield rich and powerful motivational profiles that will power smart recommendation engines--and that's when we'll see the real power of customized learning.
Digital Learning with Innovators
Last night I led a Q & A session with two digital learning innovators, Shantanu Sinha of Kahn Academy and John Danner of Rocketship at UW. Both are paving the way for innovation in the market and turning around great results.
Creating Cohorts in a Blended World
Cohorts in traditonal schooling are birthday based but creating cohorts in a blended world will look very different. Outlined at five innovative strategies for combining the benefits of customized learning and peer cohorts.
The Inevitability of Personal Digital Learning
Over the past two decades there has been a variety of reform but the inevitability of personal digital learning is unavoidable.
Differentiated Instruction
Lisa Nielsen offers an alternative to differentiated instruction: great idea, hard to practice–at least the way most schools and classrooms are organized.
The Importance of Value Added
The combination of digital learning and performance based reviews could make it much easier to measure student progress and transform todays education system.