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Here’s What Happens When Every Student Gets a Personalized Learning Plan

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She has since altered her personalized learning plan (PLP) to include the courses and experiences she’ll need to pursue a career in architectural engineering. High schoolers work on their plans once a week during Seminar, a 15-minute daily advisory period.

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The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts

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LearnLaunch Institute , the Massachusetts Personalized Learning Edtech Consortium (MAPLE) functions as a professional learning community for 32 district members that aim to implement personalized learning. You can personalize learning just fine without technology. Sometimes, it is just a distraction.

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6 Tips for making the most of ed tech exhibitions

Neo LMS

To offer more personalized learning? Just when you are starting to get excited about all the sessions and seminars and… there are hundreds of them and only a time machine could help at this point. A simple way to tackle this task is to divide products or companies into lists, according to what is more relevant.

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New Higher-Ed ‘Matchmaking’ Event Aims to Bridge Education Technology Silos

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A pair of consultants who run a popular edtech blog plan to start offering events—in hopes of getting people at colleges and companies who don’t usually talk to each other to join forces on innovative teaching efforts. Open-ed people, personalized-learning people, and the learning-analytics people, they don’t talk to each other that much.”

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Digital Learning in Organizations

Learning with 'e's

Digital Learning in Organizations shows L and D professionals how to make sure that their workforce is 'digitally ready' and has the skills, capabilities and understanding needed to capitalize on the opportunities created by learning technologies and feel confident in their ability to get the most out of them. Unported License.

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5 Higher-Ed Innovators Share Challenges, Ideas for the Future of Digital Learning

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Candace Thille, Head of Stanford Open Learning Initiative (OLI) Researcher Candace Thille of Stanford University is notable for developing the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie-Mellon University, which has moved to Stanford. Minerva prefers the more intimate approach of small seminars with 15 to 20 students, Katzman says.

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Is strength-based learning a “magic bullet?”

The Hechinger Report

They’re among the 10 “talent themes,” or strengths, used to underpin learning in the school district here. Starting in preschool, teachers try to spot students’ natural talents; by kindergarten, each child’s top strengths appear on a “personalized learning plan,” a new type of report card.