The massive personalized learning experiment in new orleans schools
Personalized learning will allow winchester public schools to meet the needs of each child; challenging them with enriched instruction in innovative learning environment. This definition of personalized learning involves four components: a learner profile that contains all the student data; flexibility in schedules, classroom set-up, and student grouping; some choice for students in how and what they learn (known as personal learning paths”); and the ability for students to go through a course at their own pace (known as competency-based progression”). Recent efforts to personalize and adapt instruction have utilized the large-scale data available from online collections of educational resources (ahmad et al., 2007; butcher & sumner, 2011; de la chica, ahmad, sumner, martin, & butcher, 2008) or crowd-sourced” recommendations from other learners (e.G., albanese, acierno, moscato, persia, & picariello, 2013). While this strategy takes a wide variety of forms from scho...