What is Personalized Learning?

In the past if you’d seen one definition of personalized learning, you’d seen… well… one definition of personalized learning. While this is a common occurrence in the early stages of disruptive innovation in any field, the lack of a consistent definition and language for a…

Personalizing the Learning Experience: The Changing Role of the Learner

One of the many benefits of personalized learning is that it empowers learners to develop agency and responsibility for their own learning. This is not always easy or comfortable, especially for learners who…

Personalizing the Learning Experience: Providing Transformative Learning Opportunities as a Path Toward Equity

Promoting equity and excellence at every level of education to ensure that every child has the opportunity to succeed is one of U.S. Secretary…

Personalizing the Learning Experience: Leveraging Openly Licensed Educational Resources

I distinctly remember walking into my first classroom as a new teacher to find an assortment of desks, items to be used in learning centers, and a set of traditional teacher’s…

Personalizing the Learning Experience: Research-Based Policies and Practices for District Leaders

We know from experience with other transformative innovations in education that personalized learning will work in our schools only if we have strong leaders at the…

Future Personalized Learning Systems at a Crossroads: Augmented Reality or Virtual Reality?

Technology-enabled personalized learning systems continue to capture the imaginations of educators, and for good reason. The promise of tailored learning for every student…

Personalizing the Learning Experience: New Insights from Future Ready Schools

Personalizing the Learning Experience: The New Human Capital Landscape

Through the Race to the Top — District (RTT-D) program, the U.S. Department of Education invested in innovative approaches to personalized learning. Sixty-eight school districts, district consortia, and…