At its heart, learning has been and always will be a personal experience. The term 'personalizing learning' has been increasingly used by policy makers, educational theorists and practitioners alike, but one of the criticisms of it is that it means different things to different people. If it is to have lasting significance, it must unite the strands of thinking to help learners and their teachers achieve new levels of attainment. "Personalizing Learning in the 21st Century" brings together contributions from a wide range of educationalists interested in the idea of personalizing learning. Although the book is intended primarily for teachers and policy makers, it will be of interest to many others, in health education, consultancy, management, research and development, and industrial training. Reading this book should be a personalized learning experience for each and every one of us.
Foreword by Tim Brighouse Introduction to the Contributions -
Personalization: Is there a consensus? The Challenge: ICT and Personalized
Learning
1. Harnessing technology to personalize the learning experience
Diana Laurillard Policy Papers
2. The paradox of choice and personalization
Sara de Freitas
3. Personalization in the Curriculum: A view from learning
theory Helen Beetham
4. Leadership for Personalizing Learning John
West-Burnham
5. Personalizing Learning: ICT enabling universal access Neil
McLean
6. Aimhigher, widening participation to higher education and
personalized learning Graeme Atherton
7. Workforce Reform and Personalized
Learning Chris Yapp Practice Papers
8. Personalized Learning: Personalized
schooling Derek Wise
9. Personalized Learning in Practice: Challenges,
approaches and ICT Bob Banks
10. Knowledge and Skills for Individuals: A
tiered approach Rob Arntsen and Tom Holland
11. Personal Learning Tools and
Environments: Their role in supporting the independent lifelong learner
Sarah Davies
12. Personalized Learning: A failure to collaborate? Malcolm
Moss
13. Online Learning: Can communities of practice deliver
personalization in learning?
14. e-Portfolios: A personal space for learning
and the learner voice Shane Sutherland
15. Designing Spaces for
Personalizing Learning: Spaces for personalizing learning or personalizing
spaces for learning? Tom Franklin and Jill Armstrong
16. Personalized
Learning and Accessibility: Adaptability at the point of delivery Alistair
McNaught and John Sewell
17. Personalized e-Learning in Primary and
Secondary Education: The impact of inconsistent definitions and goals
Rachada Monthienvichienchai
18. Personal Learning with Mobile and Wireless
Technologies Ros Smith
19. Enabling Personalization through Context
Awareness Laura Naismith Focus Group Discussion
20. Personalizing
Learning: Is there a shared vision? Sara de Freitas, Chris Dickinson and
Chris Yapp Afterword William H. Dutton About the authors Index
Dr Sara de Freitas is a Research Fellow in ICT and Education at the London Knowledge Lab - a collaborative venture between Birkbeck College and the Institute of Education, University of London, exploring the future of learning with digital technologies. Sara is also a consultant with the UK Joint Information Systems Committee e-Learning Development Programme in the Innovation strand, exploring the applications of innovative technologies on post-16 learning. She also founded and co-chairs the UK Lab Group, which brings the research and development community together to create stronger links between industrial and academic research. Sara is widely published in a number of areas including pedagogy and e-learning. Dr Chris Yapp is Head of Public Sector Innovation at Microsoft. Chris has worked in the IT industry for 25 years in a variety of roles. His long-term interests have been in Networking and Education and he has specialized in the areas of lifelong learning, e-government, the creative industries and social exclusion in the emerging knowledge society. He is a frequent public speaker on strategic issues around IT and has been a member of a number of Government Advisory Groups. He is an Associate of the Think Tank DEMOS, a Trustee of the educational charity MirandaNet and a Patron of the National Association for Able Children in Education, NACE.
