New book unveils faculty-led effort to chart concepts and competencies students should learn in six academic disciplines, with plan to create standardized tests. Will faculty members warm to this ...

I love learning innovation so much that, along with my collaborator Eddie Maloney, we are trying to build a new interdisciplinary field. In higher ed, sometimes the best way to get some traction in ...

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 ...

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 -- ...

A group of philanthropies and school and technology advocacy groups, with contributions from educators, compiled a four-part “working definition” of the attributes of personalized learning. They also ...

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 ...