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
Modify Behavior
to reflect new knowledge
and insights
Content Module
Self-Tests, Discussion
Collaborative Groups
Paging, Chat, Blog
Assessment Results
Tracking for groups
Competency Tool
D2L: Technology to Facilitate
Developing Learning Organizations
Create, Acquire, Transfer
Knowledge
Modify Behavior
to reflect new knowledge
and insights
Content Module
Self-Tests, Discussion
Collaborative Groups
Paging, Chat, Blog
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 Culture
Group webpage, blog, wiki
Support for Collaborative Groups
Experimentation & Simulations, Virtual Labs
Failure
Awareness of
Explicit course objectives &
whole
policies
Continuous
Self-tests
Improvement
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
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Chat (logged)
Pager
Discussion
Blog
Assistance with
Collaboration
 Private chat
 Private group
discussion
 Group Locker
 LiveRoom
D2L: Empowering Students
Assistance with
Communication
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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
Handling / Sharing /
Disseminating
 Multiple Delivery of
Content
 News Aggregators:
RSS feeds
 MIT Open Courseware
 Wikis, E-Notebooks,
Google Docs, E-Folios
 Creative Commons
 Learning Repositories
 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
segovia@mnstate.edu
 Rhonda Ficek, Director of Instructional
Technology, MSU Moorhead
ficek@mnstate.edu