Personalizing Learning with Data - Tech Trends

Microsoft's latest acquisition shows how combining pedagogy and technology can dramatically improve learning outcomes. "Today's students will graduate into a world that will be dramatically different – and changing faster than ever. They will enter a workforce where job functions, roles and even categories will be significantly altered, and will face social and global challenges beyond what we can imagine today," says Steve Liffick, General Manager of Education Strategy and Platforms at Microsoft. Research recently conducted by the company – "The class of 2030 and life-ready learning: The technology imperative" – concluded that student-centric approaches will be critical to achieving this. We need to radically change our approach if we are to prepare those students for the increasingly creative, collaborative, digitally-infused world they will enter as adults.