The idea of personalized learning is seductive – it implies moving away from the industrialized form of education that pumps out cookie-cutter students with the same knowledge and skills. After decades of this approach, it is clear that all children don’t learn the same way and personalization seems to honor those differences. However, that term has taken on several different meanings
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/02/what-do-we-really-mean-when-we-say-personalized-learning/