ELI Course: Designing a Campus Workshop on Appropriate Application of Personalized Learning

Designing a Campus Workshop on Appropriate Application of Personalized Learning

So called "personalized learning" products, from adaptive learning digital tutors to competency-based courseware, are becoming increasingly prevalent on campus, from widespread adoption in survey and developmental courses to entire online programs adopting them wholesale. They are driving major changes in pedagogy and in the roles of the professor, teaching assistant, and student in significant portions of the college curriculum. And yet, there are few opportunities for faculty and other campus stakeholders to have level-headed conversations about what these products are actually good for (and what they are not good for) in the context of hype-free, hysteria-free information about how they are being used and what faculty and students think about them in places where they are seriously trying them out.

This course will enable you to create such an opportunity for your campus community. Drawing on a range of video case studies and supplemental materials, you will identify the issues and opportunities around personalized learning that are relevant to an institution like yours. Then, you will design a workshop using these materials that is designed to provoke productive conversation within your particular campus community.

Objectives

During this online ELI Course, participants will:

• Develop a high-level understanding of the pedagogical approaches, technologies, and products that are most often included under the term “personalized learning,” including adaptive learning, flipped classroom, self-regulated learning, and competency-based education
• Identify the uses of personalized learning that are most relevant for their particular campus, as well as some of the issues that are most likely to arise in their context
• Collect and organize resources relevant to facilitating on-campus discussions on personalized learning that members of their respective campus communities would find appropriate, interesting, and useful
• Create a curriculum and syllabus for a campus workshop on the topic

NOTE: Participants will be asked to complete assignments in between the course segments that support the learning objectives stated above and will receive feedback and constructive critique from course facilitators on how to improve and shape their work.