WE NEED TO DEFINE PERSONALIZED LEARNING! No. No we don’t. While personalized learning (PL) may be a “thing,” it is not a thing. There are so many approaches... but overly ambitious definitions can ...

In preparing students for the world outside school, what skills are important to learn? This goes to the heart of the research addressed in the Deeper Learning Report released by the National Research ...

Brian Seymour is the director of instructional technology at the Pickerington (Ohio) Local School District. To be honest, I hate the term blended learning. Let me explain why: In today’s world of ...

We often conceive of learning through the lens of cramming for an exam or teaching a dog to sit, but humans and other mammals aren't the only entities capable of adapting to their environment -- ...

What do universities mean when they talk about “online education”? This is a question that Marc T. Austin, associate provost and dean of Augusta University Online, wanted to figure out. So, he did ...

Personalized learning is a pretty well-known term, but educators have different definitions for personalized learning, making for a sometimes-confusing approach to its implementation. Now, a new ...

While the idea of teaching critical thinking has been bandied around in education circles since at least the time of John Dewey, it has taken greater prominence in the education debates with the ...