Tom Vander Ark: Leading the Shift to Personal Digital Learning

The shift to digital learning is expanding educational opportunity in the United States and even more significantly in emerging countries. The potential to customize learning, to boost engagement, and to extend learning at reduced costs is a set of world-changing opportunities.
The shift is being propelled by expanding broadband, cheap access devices, cloud computing, and improving content. Six trends are propelling the shift in the U.S. K-12 sector:

• Higher expectations of college ready and career-ready standards reflected in the Common Core.


• Most states will help orchestrate improved student Internet access to support a shift to online assessment by 2014.


• An extended "new normal" period of flat or shrinking resources in most states.


• Expanding mobile access and student demands for learning options, both formal and informal.


• Expanding number of states that support choice to the course or multiple suppliers.


• Growing full and part-time enrollment in online learning.

Click here to read my complete post on why I believe we are on the verge of this historic shift in K-12 learning.