Stephen Downes

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Personal and Personalized Learning

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Spring VirtCon, Discovery Education Network, Washington D.C., Keynote, Apr 21, 2016.

In this presentation I outline the major differences between personal and personalized learning. "In the case of personal learning, the role of the educational system is not to provide learning, it is to support learning. Meanwhile, the decisions about what to learn, how to learn, and where to learn are made outside the educational system, and principally, by the individual learners themselves."



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