Personalization and e- learning

Personalized Learning is the tailoring of pedagogy, curriculum  and  learning  environments  to  meet  the needs and learning styles of individual learners. Personalization is broader than just individualization or differentiation in that it affords the learner a degree of choice about what is learned, when it is learned and how it is learned.

Elements of personalized e-learning

In essence, personalized e-learning enables students to customize  a  variety  of  the  elements  involved  in  the online  education  process.  This  means  that  they  are asked to set their own goals, go at their own pace, and communicate    with    instructors    and    students to personalize the learning process. Ideally, the student is placed in charge of managing his/her own learning and is able to customize the experience by having a direct say in the processes and content that is being provided.

Key elements that are customized in personalized e- learning are: the pace of learning, the instructional approach, and lessons and activities that draw upon the student's experience and interests. In truly personalized e-learning environments students are given the chance to learn what they want when they want, and even the method of learning! This typically leads to improved learning results.

Mechanics of personalized learning

A great deal of the personalization that is carried out in e-learning  settings  is  based  upon  feedback.  Feedback can   either   be   explicit   (in   the   form   of   a   written suggestion) or implicit (in the form of actions on the system). The feedback can be either manually or automatically processed to help with the personalization of the platform – and ideally this should be an integral part of the learning platform. The transformation of feedback   to   a   personalized   system   modification   is mostly handled through an Artificial Intelligence (AI) subsystem

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