Summit Public Schools in Silicon Valley have been running a Basecamp Program pilot study across 15 district public schools and four charter schools , trialling a personalised learning platform ( PLP ) , which was creating internally and improved by Facebook users . The first data points available suggests personalised learning had a positive impact on students ’ academic growth , with those in the lowest testing bracket exceeding the national US average in both maths and reading . Overall student improvement reached 1.38 times the US national average for reading and 1.04 for mathematics and 80 % of students favoured the self - directed learning strategy . All participating schools plan to implement the PLP again next year , with faculty highlighting the need for multi - stakeholder collaboration when scaling beyond the pilot study .
Summit Public Schools in Silicon Valley have been running a Basecamp Program pilot study across 15 district public schools and four charter schools, trialling a personalised learning platform (PLP), which was creating internally and improved by Facebook engineers. The first data points report suggests personalised learning had a positive impact on students’ academic growth, with those in the lowest testing bracket outperforming the national US average in both maths and reading. Overall student improvement reached 1.38 times the US national average for reading and 1.04 for mathematics and 80% of students favoured the self-directed learning strategy. All 19 schools plan to implement the PLP again next year, with faculty highlighting the need for multi-stakeholder collaboration when scaling beyond the pilot study.