The Take-Action Guide to World Class Learners Book 1: How to Make Personalization and Student Autonomy Happen by Yong Zhao

by Yong Zhao

This first book in a new series shows educators at all levels what it takes to help students become more insightful, creative, communicative, technically skilled, and decisive. This book gives practical guidance to implement the new education paradigm--the entrepreneur-oriented education paradigm--outlined in the Corwin publication World Class Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students. This book on Personalized Education expands the elements of a world-class education that aims to cultivate globally competent, creative, and entrepreneurial talents with practical ideas and examples that correlate closely to 21stCentury demands for students with technical skills, creativity, decision making capacity and great communication skills.

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First published November 17, 2015

About the author

Yong Zhao is a Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education, with a courtesy appointment in the School of Business, at the University of Kansas. He is also a global chair in education at East China Normal University. He previously served as the presidential chair and director of the Institute for Global and Online Education in the College of Education, University of Oregon, where he was also a professor in the Department of Educational Measurement, Policy, and Leadership. Prior to Oregon, Yong Zhao was University Distinguished Professor at the College of Education, Michigan State University, where he also served as the founding director of the Center for Teaching and Technology and executive director of the Confucius Institute as well as the US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence. His works focus on the implications of globalization and technology on education. He has published over 100 articles and 30 books.