Taking a Learning Sciences Perspective to Understand Personalized Learning in Schools

• In Event: 66.086 - MTCC Roundtable Session 29
  In Roundtable Session: 66.086-5 - Agency, Interests, and Identity

Abstract

The Learning Sciences community has developed around a series of ideas emphasizing how to create powerful socio-technical learning environments that elicit and build on learner interest. This paper develops a framework around core ideas in the Learning Sciences to review the results of a four-year research project to define what personalized learning looks like in practice. This paper presents the results of this analysis, shows where practice deviates from Learning Sciences research, and considers avenues for how ambitious reform practices can indicate new avenues for inquiry in the Learning Sciences.

Author

• Richard R. Halverson, University of Wisconsin - Madison