This document discusses smart and personalized learning. It defines personalized learning as teaching focused on the needs, potential, and perceptions of individual learners. Smart learning combines social and ubiquitous learning using technology to diversify instruction according to different learning styles and needs. The document recommends ways to personalize classes, such as flipping instruction, regrouping students, using online resources tailored to students' needs, and providing flexible learning spaces. It notes challenges like time, connectivity, and resistance to change but emphasizes that technology should support pedagogy and relationship-building rather than replace them. The key is for teachers to design instruction that meets students wherever they are.

1. How Smart and Personalised
are our classes?
Dr Khalid Al-Shahrani

2. Outline
• Learning Vs. Education
• What is Smart and Personalized Learning?
• Why personalize our classes?
• Is it technology that makes our class smart?
• How can we personalize our classes?
• Challenges
• Concluding remarks

3. • What?
• So what?
• Now what?

5. The People Vs. the School System

8. Instructional scaffolding
The support given during
the learning process
which is tailored to the
needs of the student with
the intention of helping
the student achieve
his/her learning goals
(Sawyer, 2006)

9. Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
“The distance between the
actual developmental level as
determined by independent
problem solving and the level
of potential development as
determined through problem
solving under adult guidance,
or in collaboration with more
capable peers”
(Vygotsky,1978, p. 86)

10. Is Knowledge created or transferred?
(Kember, 1997)

11. 1989: The future is multi-media
1999: The future is the Web
2009: The future is smart devices
2019: The future is ??
What is the Future?

12. From e-Learning to smart learning
(Adu and Poo, 2014)

13. What is Personalized Learning?
It is teaching and learning that is
focused on the needs, potential and
perception of the learner. It is learner-
centred education.
(Singh & Hassan, 2017)

14. What is Smart Learning?
- Focuses on learners and content more than on devices.
- Effective, intelligent, tailored learning based on advanced IT
infrastructure.
- Technology is important but it should not be the focus.
(Gwak, 2010)
- Combines the advantages of social learning and ubiquitous leaning.
- Learner-centric and service-oriented educational paradigm.
(Kim et al., 2013)

15. Use of formal and informal learning using available tools (smart
devices, BB, apps, computer, projector, online websites, social
media, etc.) to diversify teaching and learning to cater for different
styles and needs.
What does it mean?

16. Wheeler, 2010

17. Personal
Learning
Environment
Social
Network
Blogs
LMS
External
Services Web
2.0
Aggregator
E-portfolio
Personal Learning Environment Model
Delgado, 2007

18. Why should we personalise learning?
• To meet each student wherever they are
• To take our learners to the next level
• Help our learners navigate their way
• Ensuring individual differences are acknowledged

19. How can we personalize our
classes?

20. Flip your class
• Teaching at home & discussion
in class
• Make your own videos or refer
them to available online
resources

21. Re-group your students
• Allow for collaborative
and cooperative learning.
• Flexible learning spaces
(class, library, lab, court).

22. Online Resources
• Free
• Open
• Flexible
• Social
Massive Open Online
Courses (MOOC)

23. Provide your students with specific resources aligned with their
CEFR levels/personal needs
Online Resources

24. How else can we personalize our classes?

25. https://tltc.umd.edu/
Experience matters

26. Challenges
• Time
• Connectivity
• What to use it for?
• Technical skills (training)
• Motivation/resistance
• Policies

27. Concluding remarks
• Learning is Open, Social and Personal
• Earn your students trust. No significant learning can occur
without significant relationship
• Assessment tasks as learning tasks: Lab Work and
quizzes and finals are all learning opportunities
• Open learning yet with some structure

28. • Design is the key
• It takes lots of preparation and planning
• Use available technology to support informal and self study
• Technology extends the benefits of a great teacher
• Pedagogy comes first, even before technology, and it
should.
Concluding remarks

29. Thank you