Research and the Promise of Personalized Learning

If you search online for what personalized learning is, you’ll find dozens of definitions.This lack of a common language to describe an emerging idea can hamper understanding, acceptance, and effective implementation. Compounding this are the several terms for personalized learning approaches that are, at times, used interchangeably, including individualized, differentiated, and adaptive. Yet, as personalized learning as an approach for meeting the varying needs of an increasingly diverse learner population has gained traction in the education community, definitions are emerging with more similarities than diferences.