Personalized Learning Panel Discussion, Educelerate Conference, Chicago Sept 24 2015

Chicago IL

September 24, 2015

EDUCELERATE 2015

PERSONALIZED LEARNING PANEL

OUR PANELISTS

• Ray Henderson, Lessons Learned Ventures (Indianapolis)

• David Vinca, CEO eSparkLearning (Chicago)

• Manoj Kutty, CEO LoudCloud Systems (Dallas)

• Manoj Kulkani, CEO Realizeit Learning (Chicago)

• Eric Frank, CEO Acrobatiq (Pittsburgh)

US D.O.E. DEFINITIONS

1. Personalized: adjusts pace, approach, adds student agency.

2. Competency-based: you move when you show you can do.

3. Adaptive: technology assigns educational resources.

Richard CulattaDir. Ed Tech, USDOE

CHRONICLE COMMENTER DEF’S:

1. Competency based: Focusing teaching and learning on concrete skills. See ‘death of a liberal education.’

2. Adaptive: Curiosity, imagination and critical understanding are reduced to rodent responses in an academic Skinner-box.

3. Personalized: Just another meaningless catchphrase for what good teachers have always done.

EDUCELERATE 2015 DEF’S:

1. Personalized Learning: products that modify path and progress conditionally, based on scoring rubric for learner performance.

2. Competency-based learning: a form of PL where a curricular authority designs fine-grained tests of topical mastery in a progression from introductory to complex assessment of understanding.

3. Adaptive learning: a form of PL where a curricular authority designs content and assessments, but with multiple potential paths, dynamically determined by algorithms informed by learner performance.

QUESTIONS

1. The role of educators as PL is adopted: Authorship? Teaching method?

2. The market for PL: How will the market develop? How large will it become?

3. ROI for PL: how should it be judged? Success stories?