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Today’s most hyped phrase, personalized learning, is nearing Gartner’s peak of inflated expectations among the chattering class of education thought leaders and philanthropists. What is personalized learning? Slope of Enlightenment: Competency-BasedLearning. Competency-basedlearning is one of these.
While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to onlinelearning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation. The result was the adoption of “a learner centered, personalized, competency-based” approach that allows students to meet learning goals on their own terms, Rooney said.
Asynchronous Can Still Be Interactive If instructors get creative, they can build personalized interactions into asynchronous teaching, argues Michelle Eaton, director of virtual and blendedlearning for a school district in Indianapolis. In a 2010 meta-analysis of online-learning research compiled by the U.S.
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Each of us has seen headlines about an online school providing an unaccredited program that looks like a “diploma mill,” or a completely mismanaged school administration that was not prepared for high student mobility or other realities of onlinelearning.
Since 2012, all of 2Rev’s offerings provide a blended experience, including face-to-face sessions as well as onlinelearning opportunities. In 2015, after working with other tech partners, 2Revolutions decided to build its own social learning platform from scratch.
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Rethinking How Schools Work: Another trend educators have long talked about is the need to make learning more interdisciplinary, interactive and student-driven. Technology could be a productive part of this shift by changing where and how students engage with learning.
Related: Rhode Island’s lively experiment in blendedlearning. When you’re teaching high-ability students, a lot of these free market principles will bring you success,” said Michael Barbour, an education professor at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, who studies onlinelearning.
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