The FLOE Infrastructure for Individualized Learning provides a digital toolkit for learners that supports them in discovering, gathering, and reflecting upon personal data about learning needs and approaches. The goal is to give learners agency over their own data, and to encourage a curiosity-based approach in which it's okay to experiment, gather different kinds of apparently unrelated data, and make tentative and unconventional correlations between their personal data and other data gathered from the world at large—in order to support reflexive, personal, and social modes of data-gathering and sense-making about learning. The infrastructure particularly aims to support those for whom established, formal learning environments may represent a mismatch. , and emphasizes opportunities for both private, personal data gathering as well as social reflection with peers, educators/mentors, and family/friends. The infrastructure includes:
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