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This article discusses some of the challenges encountered with personalized learning.

Although students are evermore connected to the social web, many of these networks remain out-of-class digital playgrounds where students congregate. In a 2014 survey of 1,000 teachers, just one in five said they use social media regularly with students. Of course, it can be a challenge to incorporate social media into lessons.

Online learning is growing. How do online classrooms differ from the face to face classroom? What about the student/teacher relationship? Jade Ballek is a principal of an online K12 school in Canada. She tells all: the challenges of online learning and the strengths. Sylvia Duckworth made a sketchnote to go with this show!

This 'Need-to-Know' blog post series features noteworthy stories that speak of need-to-know developments within higher education and K-12 that have the potential to influence, challenge and/or transform traditional education as we know it. 1) Purdue's three-year degree: "Think 3 Years!

Blend My Learning is a blog that provides readers with information from educators that are developing and creating blended learning environments. The educators that contribute to the blog share their ideas, strategies, successes, and challenges of making the shift to a blended learning environment. The goals of the blog can be summed up by their slogan of "innovate, transform, and share".

EvaluationKIT has joined the highest Instructure partnership tier as an Alliance Partner, empowering the two companies to work more closely than ever in meeting the needs of Canvas clients. EvaluationKIT Named SIIA Education CODiE Award Finalist for Best Postsecondary Enterprise Solution By implementing EvaluationKIT, Bossier Parish Community College has been able to address the challenges of scaling their course evaluation process cost-effectively to meet the demands of increasing enrollment.

An occasional paper on digital media and learning from the MacArthur Foundation. Lead author is Henry Jenkins

In a face-to-face class, students have numerous opportunities to interact with their instructor and fellow students. Creating similar opportunities for collaboration in a web-based course is one of the biggest challenges of teaching online. Yet, opportunities for meaningful synchronous and asynchronous interaction are plentiful, provided you design and facilitate your online course in the correct manner and with the proper tools.

Close your eyes, and picture the most engaging discussion you've ever had in a classroom. What characterized that discussion? Was it the participants' passion and enthusiasm for a particular topic? Was it their energized, but respectful, debate around differing perspectives on a challenging subject?

This PBS Activity guide includes five excellent engineering challenges for students in grades 9-12. Instructions for implementing the activities as well as materials lists are included!