Integrating Personalized Learning
The demand for personalized learning is not adequately supported by current technology or practices. The increasing demand for education that is customized to each student's unique needs is driving the development of new technologies that provide more learner choice and control and allow for differentiated instruction. It has become clear that one-size-fits-all teaching methods are neither effective nor acceptable for today's diverse students. Technology can and should support individual choices about access to materials and expertise, amount and type of educational content, and methods of teaching. The biggest barrier to personalized learning, however, is that scientific, datadriven approaches to effectively facilitate personalization have only recently begun to emerge; learning analytics, for example, is still evolving and gaining traction within higher education.
This will be one challenge to keep an eye on. Not only is the technology not adequate yet, the current systems that are in place today are not sufficient. It would take a reworking of what the educational system looks like as a whole to make this change. Thus this challenge is a little harder to solve than the previous challenges explored.
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