Personalizing Learning

Business in the Knowledge Society needsmanagers and employees who are autonomous lifelonglearnersflexible and adaptable. To enablethis education in the 21st Century requires thatstudents become active and independent learners. Akey problem is how is this transition from therelatively passive learner model that the majority ofeducators and students most readily recognize to that of active learner to be achieved? This bookdescribes a method of enabling this transition byinvolving learners in a participatory design processthat transforms their ability to understand their ownlearning - and that of others. Themethodology allied with the design and developmentof a personalized online environment provides theframework the processes and the set of outcomes thatallow the student or trainee to develop into anindependent and autonomous lifelong learner. The bookshould be of great interest to managers educatorsand students alike. The emergence of socialnetworking has made the approach even more valuableas the opportunities for sharing learning resourcesmatching learner types and creating effective teamshave continued to increase.