Today, educators must make degree completion more accessible to an ever-growing, ever-changing population of highly diverse students with equally diverse learning needs. It’s no wonder so many are exploring personalized learning, or that so many diverse perspectives have emerged about its use in K–12 and higher education. Too often, though, the most important element is missing from discussions about personalized learning: the human element.
Personalized learning has been defined as a methodological principle that employs: “…a diverse variety of educational programs, learning experiences, instructional approaches, and academic-support strategies that are intended to address the distinct learning needs, interests, aspirations, or cultural backgrounds of individual students”.
