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William & Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation

Technology-Enabled Personalized Learning: Findings & Recommendations to Accelerate Implementation


Background

On February 11-13, 2014, the Friday Institute hosted more than one hundred education leaders for a National Summit on Technology-Enabled Personalized Learning (TEPL). This working meeting brought together innovative leaders in the field – educators, service providers, nonprofit leaders, researchers, and other stakeholders – and built upon some of the partnerships, findings, and outcomes from a related 2010 National Summit.

The Summit was informed by and sought to identify and accelerate the many important initiatives underway to deliver the new learning paradigms needed to accomplish personalized learning.
Leaders in the field compared experiences, discussed common challenges and barriers, and identified potential solutions and models that all must be addressed collectively to scale the implementation of personalized learning through technology. Outcomes included development of action plans, tangible recommendations, partnerships, and furthering of participants’ knowledge. The TEPL site provides information about the Summit and videos of presentations and panels.

More specifically, Summit organizers identified the following Summit goals:

  • Bridge currently dispersed interdisciplinary networks of UDL (Universal Design for Learning) and Learning Analytics (LA).
  • Address technical (e.g., metadata and integration), business model (e.g., content packaging and license models), regulatory (e.g., data privacy) and other issues best solved collectively.
  • Provide an experience that advances the collective and individual knowledge of participants to share expertise and develop partnerships.
  • Identify gaps, needed deliverables, and action steps for follow-up work.

Summit participants were driven by their shared vision of systemically redesigning the traditional school model to one that is more student-centered. Participants believe educational equity and student success require that each student’s educational path, curriculum, instruction, and schedule be personalized to meet each unique learner’s needs. Participants believe that the effective use of technology is necessary, though not sufficient, to provide personalized learning at scale.

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Authors and Contributors

No Photo Available Jill Abbott

No Photo Available James Basham, PhD

No Photo Available Steve Nordmark

No Photo Available Mark Schneiderman

No Photo Available Bruce Umpstead

No Photo Available Kathy Walter

Dr Mary Ann Wolf Dr Mary Ann Wolf

Published

February 8, 2021

Resource Type

Report

Published By

Friday Institute for Educational Innovation