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Essentials Elements of Mass Customized Learning• What differentiates MCL from other change efforts

• or, You are not doing MCL unless . . .

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If you study the research of the best practicesof the most effective out-of-date schools,

And then combine that research into ameta-analysis of the most effective practices

of out-of-date schools,

You will end with a convincing list ofbest practices

of the best out-of-date schools.

Schwahn and McGarvey

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How the Inevitable: MCL Vision is Unique

1. NO Industrial Age, Assembly Line

2. How is the Learner Outcome Best Learned

3. Intrinsic Learner Motivation

4. Learner and Professional Role Changes

5. Accepting of Cross-Industry Learning

6. Technology as Transformer of School Structure

7. ePortfollio Management System

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You have replaced the Bureaucratic, Industrial Age,

Assembly Line delivery of instruction with a

“MCL compatible” system

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You BEGIN with the learner in mind . . . at center . . .

That is: You ask the questions:

1. Who is walking through our doors?2. What “future” will our learners encounter when they

leave our system?3. How is this “Learner Outcome” best learned?4. And therefore, how do we structure our learning system?

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Your extrinsic “learner reward” system has been replaced by natural intrinsic

learner motivators.1. Meeting the individual learner at his/her learning

level2. Allowing for individual learning styles

3. Learning through content of high interest4. Learning that is clearly relevant to life

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Role/Mindset Changes• From Students to Learners

• From Teachers to Learning Facilitators• From Lone Ranger to Team Member• From Worker to Professional

• From Principal as Manager to Principal as Leader

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You, and your system, are open to, accepting of, and searching for

Cross-Industry Learning opportunities

1. Who is customizing their products and services to individual customers and clients?

2. “How do they do that?”3. What implications might this technique, strategy, or system

have for education, for Mass Customizing Learning?

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You and your system embrace TECHNOLOGY as TRANSFORMER

That is, you see technology as serving two important functions:

1. Technology as Teacher . . . for those learner outcomes best learned via technology

2. Technology as Transformer . . . allowing school systems to be restructured and transformed into modern learning communities

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ePortfolios serve as the learning community’s Management System• Assessment of Learner Outcomes for Individuals

• Learner Permanent Achievement Record• Learner Attendance Records

• Grouping Learners with Similar Needs• Reporting and Communicating with Parents

• System Accountability to Community• State Reporting Data???