This design case illustrates an innovative research-based pedagogical approach to customizing students' learning experiences in an online course. We centered the course design on the experiential learning model which fosters student's learning through a reexamination and integration of their current knowledge with new and refined knowledge (Kolb,…

This article presents an exploratory study aimed at analyzing the instructional design of learning personalization practices in three secondary education centers that promote connections between students' learning and/or their learning experiences in and out of school. We propose three dimensions for analysis, according to a constructivist and…

Modeling differentiated instruction is one way to demonstrate how educators can incorporate instructional strategies to address students' needs, interests, and learning styles. This article discusses how secondary teacher candidates learn to focus on content--the "what" of instruction; process--the "how" of instruction;…

This paper describes a model of personalized work-integrated learning that is collaborative in nature, uses emerging Internet technologies and is accessed fully online. The Ultraversity project was set up by Ultralab at Anglia Ruskin University to develop a fully online, 3-year duration, undergraduate degree program with an emphasis on action…

Article discusses learning stations in the classroom as an aid to individualized instruction. (GB)

Teachers must return to basics and recognize that their role may not be to supply answers, but rather to present questions, situations, or problems to be solved and to stimulate students to investigate issues. This should be achieved within the framework of individualized learning with the student actively participating. (JMF)

This book provides discussion and guidelines for administering an individualized instruction program; it is stated, however, that the book is not confined to individualized study units alone but brings in the creation of any educational instrument, a variety of which are illustrated in the appendixes. The following topics are considered in this…

Current exploratory work on one element of one component of the development and evaluation of a comprehensive guidance system has been reviewed. This element, the Personal and Social Development Program (PSDP), is an attempt to assist students in the assessment and modification of their academic and interpersonal behaviors. Designed to operate…

This document reports on the development of an apprenticeship work-study model--a new model for training personnel for educational research and development. The model provides short-term training in applied research and development (R & D) for persons holding B.A. and M.A. degrees by featuring individualized learning and "real-time" experience on…

Individualized Learning for Adults (ILA), a program designed to meet the needs of adults enrolled in Adult Basic Education (ABE) classes, is presented. The curriculum of the ILA program consists of two carefully constructed continuums sequenced along two dimensions: area and level. There are 257 performance objectives, or skills, in the…

This seventh in a series of ten learning modules on school-community relations is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers competence in planning and conducting an open house to publicize their programs. The terminal objective for the module is to conduct an open house in an actual school situation. Introductory sections…

This fifth in a series of eleven learning modules on program planning, development, and evaluation is designed to help secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers develop competencies needed to help an occupational advisory committee mature to the level at which it can maintain itself. Introductory sections relate the competencies dealt with…

This sixth in a series of eleven learning modules on program planning, development, and evaluation is designed to assist secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers in gaining the knowledge and skills needed to develop and write program goals and objectives that give direction to the vocational program, make public its expected outcomes, and…

This ninth in a series of twenty-nine learning modules on instructional execution is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers assistance in determining how the project method applies to their service area and in planning and implementing this method effectively. The terminal objective for the module is to employ the project…

This fourth in a series of eleven learning modules on program planning, development, and evaluation is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers information and skills needed to ensure a properly organized occupational advisory committee. The terminal objective for the module is to organize an occupational advisory committee…