Why?
The Harsh Reality: Public education needs help! Our system is outdated, many (we think most) of our learners are not motivated by today’s classrooms, our achievement ranks medium to low when compared to other developed countries, and all this while global competition has our country in a slide.
BUT WAIT! There's good news! Two powerful forces are coming together. A great opportunity for educators is hiding in plain sight. SO obvious.
One force is fifty years old, and the other is almost brand new.
- Force number one: the strong desire that caring educators have always had to
“individualize and personalize” learning. We all know that effective learning requires a focus on the needs of the individual.
- Force number two: the powerful new technologies that are customizing nearly
every industry and profession.
What we wanted to do, but couldn’t, can now be done. No one is guilty for not doing it 10 years ago, but to not customize learning now that we have the tools should invoke guilt.
Marry the strong desire to customize learning . . . to today’s powerful
customizing technology, and BINGO, we have the capacity
to Transform Education.
Inevitable: Mass Customized Learning was written to make the MCL vision clearly visible to everyone. Once you see it, you will want it!
You will learn the “why” of MCL throughout the book, and chapter 1 gives you a good start.
