Personalised Learning 2025

This chapter examines the elements that might lead the educational systems towards greater personalisation, namely, attitudes, motivation, the needs of society, and technological possibilities. It then considers how key stakeholders – students, teachers, parents, the labour market, society – might react. The preliminary conclusion is that personalisation will emerge but the ways it will come about are open to debate, and four scenarios present different options: 1) total personalisation; personalised timing; 3) automated teaching; 4) the status quo. Personalised education will not be possible without simultaneously improving the productivity of the system and it may also mean that it becomes more difficult to ascertain what individual students have gained from their studies and more discontinuous education may have negative effects on society’s cohesiveness. Personalisation characterised by easing the individual student’s passage through the system will be much less controversial than one that also personalises educational content.