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Implementation Challenges on the Path to Personalization
There are several technical challenges to delivering on the promise of personalized learning including defining a standard student record, boosting interoperability, and combining multiple formative sources. However, there are additionally daunting implementation barriers related to school models, leadership and parents.
Julie Young Launches Online Learning Venture
Global Personalized Academics, a new Orlando based education venture launched last week aiming to provide virtual classroom learning to help students across the globe transform the way they learn.
Why Authentic Proficiency Matters
Is your student truly proficient? New website from ExcelinEd helps start an important conversation about the importance of accurate proficiency scores and the danger of state proficiency gaps.
Build Your Brand: How a Positive Social Media Presence can Lead to a Career
By: Haley Osborne. Social media is an ever-changing entity, but we’re finding there are a few things about it that stay constant. Here's how to not only create the best personal brand possible via social media, but how to use it to boost your career as well.
From Formative Assessment to Tracking Student Mastery: The Road to Competency-Based Instruction
Mastery tracking, fed by formative assessment, is fundamental to competency-based learning and any attempt to personalize. Here, we dive into 10 reasons why it is so important.
Technical Challenges on the Path to Personalization
We believe a comprehensive learner profile, data backpack, and student portfolio are key to personalization. However, there are five challenges to overcome to unlock the power of personalized learning that includes student records, interoperability, and developing growth rates.
10 Reasons Teachers Make Great Bloggers
The reason I love blogging is because it reminds of building a lesson plan. It takes me back to those Sunday morning brainstorming sessions at coffee shops. Blogging is just like building an effective and interactive lesson plan — making teachers GREAT at it.
How to Use LinkedIn to Build a Student Portfolio
Well-designed learner portfolios provide students an opportunity to chart their growth and tell their story. That's why every student should have a digital portfolio. A great place to start is on LinkedIn.
Making Competency-Based, Personalized Learning Real for Teachers
As educators work to make the shifts necessary to make this a reality, we have to ask ourselves what our systems for professional learning can do to achieve similar ends. Teacher development providers — if they are really serious about offering resources that are truly more personalized — need to build together a common infrastructure that connects learning happening everywhere and anytime.
Personalization + Privacy = Data Backpack
We believe the Student Data Backpack and Expanded Learning Profile address both the potential of student data to personalize learning and a path to protecting student information. This is not just a huge problem to solve, but a huge opportunity to seize.