For several years now I have been an unabashed promoter of online learning as a disruptive innovation with the potential to transform our education system from a monolithic one to a student-centric one that personalizes for different student needs.
All are important and necessary for different stages and needs in the development process.
Given this, teachers face an extraordinary challenge in being able to individualize for these different learning needs in the conventional classroom structure.
Good programs, however, that do customize for these different learning needs and lead to increased student engagement and time on task, should be easier to scale in a digital world as opposed to an analog one.
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Big Data, while ripe with potential to be mined for insights, needs a different, more dynamic approach to realizing its possibilities than the top-down, root-cause analysis of traditional business intelligence.
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Goals and needs are different for every person we work with.
In addition, when they were originally designed, the Defense Department had different needs and different expectations for their uses.
To delight customers, a radically different kind of management needs to be in place, with a different role for the managers, a different way of coordinating work, a different set of values and a different way of communicating.
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He would stop the scheduled execution for next week and then find a different means for doing so, if in fact he determines today that there needs to be a hearing on the matter.
Well, there are two and a half negatives to a larger iPhone that Apple has long considered (1) bigger is harder to handle (2) a different size screen needs a different number of pixels, which is a pain in the neck for app developers.
But he had "lost a lot of sleep" over how to handle his client's needs and decided for now on a different course of action.
The choice is made for us, by someone whose interests and needs are different from our own.
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But he didn't find a suitable model for payouts after a mass killing, where needs are different than, say, replacing a house destroyed by a flood.
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It always needs to be tweaked and fixed and supported for different clients in different circumstances.
Once this network is under construction, there will be a need for many different types of applications to be written to meet the special needs of the Public Safety community and most of these applications will be written by smaller developers who want to expand their client base.
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Watch for patterns across different user bases and develop generalized solutions that can be tailored to meet specific needs.
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Along with the VYBE 15 notebook, the VYBE desktop line has been also updated to be quickships as well offering four different pre-built configurations for customers to select from that fit their performance and budget needs.
Since every organization has different, unique needs, there is no one-size-fits all model for application transformation.
France needs people like Niel, with a different vision and mission, people who fight for what they believe in and who are making real changes.
For 2012, the Everio line breaks down into three product series, each designed to meet the needs of different users.
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