Authors of this article frame personalized learning as “a set of ideas for solving [the] problem” of teachers being overloaded with work and not having enough time to give their students individual attention. That is a feature, not a bug. By framing it this way, we hope to open the door to questions like the following:
- Why are faculty so overworked that “being the kind of teacher that [they] want to be gets harder and harder”?
- How does the increasing diversity of our student population make good teaching more challenging and what is the best approach to meeting that challenge?
- Are we providing faculty with the right support, incentives, and training to promote good teaching?
- When is personalized learning good teaching practice and when is it cover for bad labor policy?
- How can technology help us increase access to education without hurting quality and what are the limits of that capacity?