Learner Advocacy and Personalized Learning

This blog will monitor the progress of a project researching student advocacy within personalized learning. The aims of the project are as follows.

1. Investigation of models of student representation which can support self advocacy within CCN’s model of personalised learning.
2. Exploration of new technologies to support those representation frameworks and individual student’s needs to develop self advocacy.
3. Investigation of models of differentiation [learning styles and individualisation] of delivery of training in the workplace.
4. Exploration of new technologies to support personalisation of delivery in the workplace.

The project is being conducted in partnership with other institutions who are focusing on other parts of personalized learning. The purpose of the blog is to share interim results finally and monitor the progress of the research on a technical as well as content level. I intend to post atleast once or twice a week for the duration of the project.

The idea behind keeping a research blog is to look at different ways of promoting the vision of Lawrence Stenhouse of research as “systematic inquiry made public”. Stenhouse’s view position (in as much as he could anticipate modern technology) is not just that the results are made public but also the process of inquiry is presented as part of a ‘case record’ to which others have access. This blog is only a very timid entry into the idea of a public research project, partly because the project, includes very little fieldwork and has to deal with almost no issues of privacy and confidentiality (although I am mindful of the fact that even in this case some confidences needs to be preserved).