APLUS+ Presents: EVERYTHING Flex-Based Learning

Look around at successful companies today and a common thread appears: products and services personalized to the individual customer. In Episode 3 of APLUS+ Presents: EVERYTHING Flex-Based Learning, Jeff Rice, founder of APLUS+ (the Association of Personalized Learning Schools and Services), explains why personalization isn't a passing fad, and why public education has to follow.

Jeff argues that education is a service industry, and that children and parents are its primary customers. That means recognizing that some students learn better at home, others online, others in a hybrid setting with some classes at a resource center...

Too many students in traditional public schools are being underserved by a century-old, one-size-fits-all classroom model. In Episode 2 of APLUS+ Presents: EVERYTHING Flex-Based Learning, Jeff Rice, founder of APLUS+ (the Association of Personalized Learning Schools and Services), explains how flex-based personalized learning serves the greater good for students, families, and communities.

Jeff traces today's classroom back to the industrial age, when schools were built to prepare factory workers, and explains why a teacher who must teach to the middle of the bell curve leaves students above and below it struggling to stay engaged. He makes...

Every student is unique, so why should every student's path through school look the same? In this first episode of APLUS+ Presents: EVERYTHING Flex-Based Learning, Jeff Rice, founder of APLUS+ (the Association of Personalized Learning Schools and Services), introduces the flex-based personalized learning model and explains why it's becoming more popular among parents and students.

Jeff contrasts the traditional one-size-fits-all classroom, a system designed more than 100 years ago for the industrial age, with a model where students, parents, and teachers build a tailored learning plan together. Students can choose how, what, when, where, and with...