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Why Do Students in Personalized Learning Programs Feel Less Positive About School?

Doug Levin

Rand Corporation just released the latest in its Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-sponsored research series on personalized learning. So, I changed my tack and decided to review a prior report in the same series (done by the same principal investigator and published in November 2015) to see if this was indeed a pattern.

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After Early Results, Personalized Learning Is 'Quickly Becoming District-Wide' in Dallas

Edsurge

Personalized learning is core to the model at Rogers Elementary, and Kristen Watkins, director of the personalized learning program at Dallas Independent School District, says that exposing students to multiple devices is an intentional part of the school’s approach. The next, they’ll try a Kindle.

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Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

Edsurge

Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. In less than two years, between 2015 and 2017, the district paid more than $4.5 million to the firm for personalized-learning consulting services. Take Fulton County School District, in Georgia.

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Can SEL Support Personalized Learning? How One Chicago School is Finding Out

Edsurge

Change has proven rewarding at CICS West Belden , a high-performing K-8 charter school in Chicago, which recently shifted to a personalized learning model. But those outcomes have not been without challenges, and the adjustment wasn’t easy for everyone. Students were also being asked to shift they way the learned.

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What is Blended Learning?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Staker (2011) defined this approach as “any time a student learns at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home and at least in part through online delivery with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace” (p. Fabbian et al, 2017). Z., & Grgurović, M. link] O’BYRNE, W.

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The NEO Blog is now 4!

Neo LMS

That happened waaaay back in 2015 (which in online time seems like a few decades ago). During the past 12 months we published exactly 102 blog posts, the number of the contributing authors grew to 23, and everyone’s work made the NEO Blog advance into the first 4% of all e-learning blogs (based on this impressive list )!

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

because teaching is no longer an isolated profession; it’s a dynamic and interconnected field requiring teachers to work collaboratively and build expansive professional and personal learning networks. It enhances teaching practices, fosters professional growth, and significantly improves student outcomes. Madda et al.,

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