Personalized education aims to offer a student an individual curriculum developing each person’s unique talents and interests. Today in our rapidly digitizing education we increasingly use digital learning materials in electronic learning environments student administration systems and testing & assessment software. Students and teachers increasingly learn and work ‘anytime/anyplace’ interacting with these systems.
To realize a custom education path for each student these systems need to be able to react to the students use of learning materials (change of) study plans their test results etc. The systems need to ‘know’ who the student is. The only alternative to this is someone feeding these systems by hand with a lesson program per student per day…
But how do we enable systems to service an individual student implementing a learner centered education? These systems need to know what students like (learning style) what their talents are which weak spots they have which earlier courses they took what part of the test they made mistakes. This set of assertions about a person comprises (part of) his/her identity.
Being able to take this information into account our education software systems can do the bulk of the work enabling teachers to use dashboard like interfaces to tweak the student programs and incorporate their own observations as professional educators to provide the student with his/her individual optimal learning experience.
In this presentation we will talk about this concept and offer a few practical considerations when working towards an integrated digital learning environment. We will also look into the more social aspects of identity both in real life and digital.