Designing Personalized Learning Environments

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Designing Personalized Learning Environments
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• Joann Segovia Rhonda Ficek

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Objectives

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

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Teaching Philosophy

• I never teach my pupils I only attempt to
  provide the conditions in which they can learn.
  
• Albert Einstein

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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

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Personalized Learning EnvironmentsKey Attributes

• Interaction Teacher/student
  student/student
• Student-driven participation in
• Developing learning process
• Technology access
• Varied learning environments
• Choices in assignments and activities

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Learning Organization
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• 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)

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D2L Technology to Facilitate Developing Learning
Organizations
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D2L Technology to Facilitate Developing Learning
Organizations
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Elements of a Learning Organization
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Technology Enabled Learning
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• Communicating
• Transferring knowledge

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

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Supporting Team-Based Structure Personalized
Learning
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Supporting Team-Based Structure Personalized
Learning
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2. Learning OrganizationsEmpowerment of Members
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• Individuals make decisions
• Individual responsibility
• Individual determines work methods

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Empowering StudentsPersonalized 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

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D2L Empowering Students

• Assistance with Communication
• Chat (logged)
• Pager
• Discussion
• Blog

• Assistance with Collaboration
• Private chat
• Private group discussion
• Group Locker
• LiveRoom

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D2L Empowering Students

• Assistance with Communication
• Chat (logged)
• Pager
• Discussion
• Blog

• Assistance with Collaboration
• Private chat
• Private group discussion
• Group Locker
• LiveRoom

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

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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

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D2LSupporting Open Information

• Posting exemplary student work
• D2L Object Repository
• Shared documents discussion board, group
  locker
• Blogs for reflection, journals
• Proposed D2L e-folio tool

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D2LSupporting Open Information

• Posting exemplary student work
• D2L Object Repository
• Shared documents discussion board, group
  locker
• Blogs for reflection, journals
• Proposed D2L e-folio tool

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Designing Personalized Learning Environments
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• Learning Organizations
• Support Collaboration
• Support Open Information
• Create empowering environment
• Technology Enabled Learning
• Determine learning objective
• Select appropriate technologies

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Blooms Taxonomy
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The Learning Pyramid (NTL Institute for Applied
Behavioral Science)
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Benefits of Personalized Learning Environments
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• Effective dissemination
• Incorporate dynamic content (repositories)
• More experiential learning
• Students coach, strive for continuous
  improvement, and innovation

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

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Contact Information
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• Joann Segovia, Accounting Professor, MSU
  Moorheadsegovia_at_mnstate.edu
• Rhonda Ficek, Director of Instructional
  Technology, MSU Moorhead ficek_at_mnstate.edu