Modernizing Learning - Building the Future Learning environment
A new book exploring the future learning environment
The ADL Initiative recently released Modernizing Learning: Building the Future Learning environment. This open-access publication examines the shift needed to our systems and society to enable lifelong, experiential, interconnected learning journeys. The book outlines the vision for a learning environment that spans technology, learning science, policy, and organizational factors.
“The progress we’ve made both in terms of new technologies as well as our understanding of human cognition have created new opportunities to improve the ways we learn,” said Sae Schatz, Ph.D., Director of the ADL Initiative and co-editor of the book, “The future learning environment represents a dynamic contrast to the Industrial Age model of time-focused, one-size-fits-all learning.”
“Extensive learning and technological research have been conducted across the myriad disciplines and communities needed to develop this holistic maturation of the learning environment,” said J.J. Walcutt, Ph.D. co-editor, “These advancements have created the opportunity for formal and informal learning experiences to be accessible anywhere, anytime, and to be personalized to individual needs.”
Modernizing Learning is the outcome of a multi-year study recently completed by the ADL Initiative, a DoD-sponsored program that conducts research, development, testing, evaluation, and policy stewardship to enhance distributed learning. More than 85 stakeholders from across communities contributed, bringing together perspectives from K–12 educators, military trainers, technology specialists, and government leaders.
Section 1: Foundations
Chapter 01 | Modernizing Learning |
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Chapter 02 | History of Distributed Learning |
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Chapter 03 | Distributed Learning Instructional Theories | |
Chapter 04 | Lifelong Learning |
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Chapter 05 | Learning Experience Design |
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Section 2: Technology
Chapter 06 | Interoperability |
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Chapter 07 | Data Security | |
Chapter 08 | Learner Privacy |
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Chapter 09 | Analytics and Visualization | |
Chapter 10 | Personalization |
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Section 3: Learning Science
Chapter 11 | Assessment and Feedback |
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Chapter 12 | Instructional Strategies for the Future |
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Chapter 13 | Competency-Based Learning |
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Chapter 14 | Social Learning |
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Chapter 15 | Personalization |
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Section 4: Organization
Chapter 16 | Instructional Designers and Learning Engineers |
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Chapter 17 | Governance for Learning environments |
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Chapter 18 | Culture Change |
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Chapter 19 | Strategic Planning |
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This publication, available for free at the Government Printing Office under a permissive Creative Commons license, outlines what we need to build for tomorrow to empower our children, workforce, society, and military personnel to achieve.
Modernizing Learning is available for download here in both English and French. More information is also available from the Government Publishing Office.