e-Learning Ecologies MOOC’s Updates

Personalization on the Blended Learning Perspective

The personalized learning became an urgent theme due to the reality of the vast majority of schools, characterized by mass organization inherited from the industrial age.

But care must be taken not to exercise personalization as an isolated student learning with your computer. About this, Professor Cope pointed out well in the video.

The interesting thing about the personalization is to focus our attention on the perception of the great diversity of learning profiles that exist in our classrooms. In this way, we can look at the singularity of each student.

But how to do this in a room of 30 students? That is where technology appears as a great ally. It allows us to visualize data that reveals the characteristics of the students and, at the same time, means to communicate and interact with each of them.

In my classes, I have used Facebook in schools where I did not have any other resources, I used Edmodo, Moodle, and other apps environments to conduct interaction with students beyond the boundaries of time and space. But I miss an environment designed for basic education.

But achieving personalization requires that students be more responsible for their learning, which has more autonomy. In this way, the interaction with the teacher can occur at a level of project construction and not only in the content transmission circuit.

Here in Brazil I participated in a group of professors who worked for one year in partnership with the Blended Learning Project of the Clayton Christensen Institute. We were stimulated and modified our strategies in the classroom, in search of personalization.

I presented some cultural aspects of the process. The discussion can be seen in the video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWuMwjWUPTc

As a result of this work, we produced a course in the MOOC format.

Our course is also in the Coursera:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/ensino-hibrido