Implementing a Personalized Learning Environment
This article is part of a series on personalized learning (part 6 of 6). Personalised Learning has been defined with different shades of meaning by different theoreticians and implemented by researchers for well over a century. Early examples include the work of Helen Parkhurst and the Dalton Plan, implemented in some US schools from 1914 onwards, which […]
Embracing Empathy in Our Schools
Empathy sometimes has trouble making friends. She roams the playground day by day but rarely receives more than a wave or a glance. The adjacent swing remains empty and no sneakers mirror hers when she skips around the field. Empathy is a little different. She changes appearance depending on who she plays with and she’s eager to […]
The Buffet of Learning: Design for Personalized Learning
This article is part of a series on personalized learning (part 5 of 6). Other than the technological tools that are now easily available, what is exactly personal about personalized learning? I have heard about iterations of self-directed learning, differentiated learning, and individualized learning. These terms, overlapping at times, distinguish in time (for instance, having accelerated learning […]
Minerva’s Lessons for Latin America
Today, the discussion around innovation is a serious matter. At the heart of the debate lies the question of scale: how to spread what really works? Regarding higher education, the Minerva Schools at KGI is one that deserves some attention. Let’s take a closer look at its innovative approach, and how the big idea can be […]
Driving Social Innovation in Higher Education
This article is part of a special interview series featuring global innovators in education (part 1 of 5). Visit WISE ed.review regularly to read the upcoming articles. “The more we shift from the myth of the ‘hero’, the more we can all participate in contributing to change in a variety of ways,” explained Marina Kim, Co-Founder and […]
Learning, Personalized and Competency-Based
This article is part of a series on personalized learning (part 4 of 6). To develop expertise in anything, Malcolm Gladwell famously said in his book Outliers that you need to invest 10,000 hours. It is true in the general sense that success requires copious amount of time, but to assume that one could use the 10,000 hours equally […]
How Strong Community And Educator Support Drives Ed Tech Success
Stacked amidst temporary shelters, tents and thatched huts in Burundi’s Kavumu refugee camp are a pile of bright blue, green and yellow boxes. Stowed away in these 800 kg metal palette-size boxes are countless ideas to educate, entertain and foster creativity among refugees. The self-contained watertight boxes are packed with e-readers, tablets, cameras, e-books, paperbacks, board […]
Closing the Gap Between K12 and Higher Education in MENA
One of the first questions to address when approaching the gap between secondary and higher education in the Arab World is whether this gap is a reality or a myth. In the last few years, I was particularly intrigued by this question, which led me to conduct a sample study including 2500 GCC students sent […]
Giving Schools the Power to Create
Despite the millions of words, Youtube and TED Talk views, the issue of creativity in schools is still in the middle of a rough ride. During 2015, debates appeared to have gone backwards, especially in England. The publication of Ken Robinson’s latest book on creative schools generated mixed responses. More traditional opponents decried an excessively […]
You Get What You Measure: Assessing Personalized Learning
This article is part of a series on personalized learning (part 3 of 6). “What you measure is what you get”, Kaplan and Norton wrote in their seminal article about the Balanced Scorecard for Harvard Business Review in 1992. In designing personalized education, we risk starting from the wrong end, by focusing on the technologies to use, […]