Designing Personalized Learning Environments Joann Segovia Rhonda Ficek

Objectives Goal : Design Interactive, Flexible, & Personalized Learning Environments Describe Related Business Management Frameworks Provide Examples of Applications & Tools

Teaching Philosophy “I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” Albert Einstein

Personalized Learning Environments  Classroom and non-classroom based educational model  Recognition of unique skills, passions, and characteristics of each student  Course design honors individual learning styles

Personalized Learning Environments: Key Attributes  Interaction: Teacher/student; student/student  Student-driven participation in –Developing learning process –Technology access –Varied learning environments –Choices in assignments and activities

Learning Organization “An organization skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge, and at modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights by trained individuals.” (Garvin, 1993)

D2L: Technology to Facilitate Developing Learning Organizations Create, Acquire, Transfer Knowledge  Content Module  Self-Tests, Discussion  Collaborative Groups  Paging, Chat, Blog Modify Behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights  Assessment Results  Tracking for groups  Competency Tool

D2L: Technology to Facilitate Developing Learning Organizations Create, Acquire, Transfer Knowledge  Content Module  Self-Tests, Discussion  Collaborative Groups  Paging, Chat, Blog Modify Behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights  Assessment Results  Tracking for groups  Competency Tool

Elements of a Learning Organization

Technology Enabled Learning  Communicating  Transferring knowledge

1. Learning Organizations: Team Based Structure  Unique culture  Awareness of the whole  Experimentation & failure  Continuous improvement

Supporting Team-Based Structure & Personalized Learning Unique Culture Experimentation & Failure Awareness of whole Continuous Improvement

Supporting Team-Based Structure & Personalized Learning Unique CultureGroup webpage, blog, wiki Support for Collaborative Groups Experimentation & Failure Simulations, Virtual Labs Awareness of whole Explicit course objectives & policies Continuous Improvement Self-tests Posting previous group projects

2. Learning Organizations: Empowerment of Members  Individuals make decisions  Individual responsibility  Individual determines work methods

Empowering Students: Personalized Learning Driven by Participants  LAMS (Learning Activity Management System)  E-folio: students choose supporting materials to document achievement  Teaching Other Students: Student-created webinars, podcasts, PwrPt, software demonstrations

D2L: Empowering Students Assistance with Communication  Chat (logged)  Pager  Discussion  Blog Assistance with Collaboration  Private chat  Private group discussion  Group Locker  LiveRoom

D2L: Empowering Students Assistance with Communication  Chat (logged)  Pager  Discussion  Blog Assistance with Collaboration  Private chat  Private group discussion  Group Locker  LiveRoom

3. Learning Organizations: Open Information  Abundance of information  Handling / Disseminating Information

Supporting Open Information Abundant Information  Multiple Delivery of Content  MIT Open Courseware  Creative Commons  Learning Repositories Handling / Sharing / Disseminating  News Aggregators: RSS feeds  Wikis, E-Notebooks, Google Docs, E-Folios  Podcasts, Webinars, Blogs

D2L: Supporting Open Information  Posting exemplary student work  D2L Object Repository  Shared documents: discussion board, group locker  Blogs for reflection, journals  Proposed D2L e-folio tool

D2L: Supporting Open Information  Posting exemplary student work  D2L Object Repository  Shared documents: discussion board, group locker  Blogs for reflection, journals  Proposed D2L e-folio tool

Designing Personalized Learning Environments Learning Organizations 1.Support Collaboration 2.Support Open Information 3.Create empowering environment Technology Enabled Learning  Determine learning objective  Select appropriate technologies

Bloom’s Taxonomy

The Learning Pyramid (NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science)

Benefits of Personalized Learning Environments  Effective dissemination  Incorporate dynamic content (repositories)  More experiential learning  Students coach, strive for continuous improvement, and innovation

Benefits of Personalized Learning Environments  Share exemplary work  Encourage/reward students to gather, share information  Minimize knowledge acquisition Maximize conceptual application

Contact Information  Joann Segovia, Accounting Professor, MSU Moorhead  Rhonda Ficek, Director of Instructional Technology, MSU Moorhead