August 2021 – now recruiting PhD research participants I am now seeking 8 – 10 youth, ages 14 – 18 years, as participants for my PhD research. In my research I am neither testing nor creating theory, but exploring, via phenomenological methodology, learning experiences as they arise for, and engage students/youth. Such experiences may arise […]
I recently drafted a chapter on Personalized Learning and Higher Education for a forthcoming text book; below is the conclusion I wrote. Conclusions and Future Directions For decades, conventional, higher education pedagogical practice in higher education has been bound to a standardized, rationalized process, a product of the Enlightenment and its more recent handmaiden, neoliberalism. […]
Here’s a link to an essay of mine just published in The Conversation: Machines can’t ‘personalize’ education, only people can Is your online learning personalized? It should be considered ‘best practice’ to do so.
Here is a link to a blog of mine posted to the SFU Research Blog (Faculty of Education): Personalized Learning – What’s Old is New, by Michael Maser, April 2021
“When children come to school we need to listen to them … there is no assessment that applies to who they are or what they have learned (this year.”
The Great Disruption continues. Schooling, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, has been cast into the wind and, like so many autumn leaves, it swirls in all directions. As a result of trying to control the wind and grasp the leaves, many (most?) students, parents, teachers and administrators are left reeling and feeling a little dizzy. […]
Right now – in the fall of 2020, school fire alarms, wordwide, continue to ring and no one seems to know how to shut them off. The bells are ringing because of a pandemic that continues to disrupt education like nothing any of us have experienced in generations. Online learning, home-schooling, cohort-bubbling, outdoor classrooms – […]
ANNOUNCEMENT: I’m leading a 4-part Pro-D certificate course for Educators, Caregivers, Counsellors and others, through the Trasnformative Learning Foundation, starting next Thursday Sept. 17th. See more details here: Learning Your Way Pro-D course with Michael Maser “The brain develops throughout life, following a trajectory that is broadly consistent for humans but it is also individualized […]
For the foreseeable future, schooling as people have understood it for decades, is furloughed. That means, for administrators, teachers, parents and students, what they had come to understand as educational practice – excepting last spring – is being replaced by something different. Realistically, the health risks from large-scale gatherings facing every person entering a school […]
Since its inception in the late 1800s, mainstream education has proved remarkably fortified against any significant ‘disruption’ that might transform or revolutionize the main characteristics by which most people would recognize and experience it. Significant ‘disruptions’ in other fields include the development of the microscope in natural science, leading to numerous discoveries about all things […]
Michael’s book, Learn Your Way! SelfDesigning the Life You Really Want, Starting Now! is an ERAC-approved middle and high school textbook for career planning and health education courses (British Columbia), and it has received numerous endorsements: “Learn Your Way is terrific.” – Dr. Maurice Gibbons, author, The Self-Directed Learning Handbook
