Better Educators Podcast

In this interview guest Brooke Hopkins and host Eric Robertson explore the potential of personalized learning to enhance student engagement, curiosity, and resilience. Hopkins advocates for beginning courses with student interest and learning preferences inventories and using that information to enhance lectures, design real world applications, and develop a wider range of assignment and assessment options for students. The discussion of the implications of personalized learning ranges from thoughts about the relationship between personal learning preferences and group dynamics to ideas about alternative assignment structures, the use of technology and personalized learning networks, the importance of failure and resilience in learning, and the power of research driven by each individual student’s curiosity. You can learn more about Brooke Hopkins' (Malik’s) work and personalized learning by visiting her website.