Abstract
E-learning courses have become popular means of delivering knowledge to students in higher education institutions. Most participants of learning process note that they benefit from the possibility to gain knowledge regardless of time, location and device they use. Among other advantages possibility to return to learnt material several times, divide material into parts, consume information through different types of educational materials (video, infographics, presentations, text, quizzes etc.) are mentioned. At the same time most of the surveyed students chose that they lack personalization both of materials and studying process, limited in terms of fulfillment and would like to have a choice of the level of study. The educational trend that is able to put into practice the above mentioned requirements is blended learning as it has a range of advantages such as usability, consideration of individual abilities, additional materials introduction, activities monitoring. Although it combines offline and online learning, effectiveness of e-learning courses designed for its implementation play a crucial role. To make a learning process correspondent to the students’ needs adaptive learning can be introduced in higher education institutions. Adaptive learning is a methodology that allows to identify level of students’ knowledge and their learning styles and transform materials, tasks and ways of their delivery according to the needs of learning process participants. LMS Moodle offers different solutions for adaptive learning. They provide administrators and teachers with tools to vary all stages of a learning process starting with delivery of information and ending with assessment.
Highlights
Utilization of digital instruments in educational process changed approach to learning of both teachers and students considerably
Adaptive learning is a methodology that allows to identify level of students’ knowledge and their learning styles and transform materials, tasks and ways of their delivery according to the needs of learning process participants
Implementation of adaptive learning remains one of current HEI’s tasks. Special attention from this perspective must be paid to electronic learning courses (ELC) as self-study process has rapidly been moving online during the recent decade, and electronic learning courses has become the basis for extracurricular work for both extramural and intramural programs
Summary
Utilization of digital instruments in educational process changed approach to learning of both teachers and students considerably. The main challenges according to the results of the survey are providing various formats of materials delivery, offering terms of study choice, dividing quizzes and tasks into different levels of difficulty as well as providing courses at various difficulty levels in general, giving options of choosing sequence of study Satisfaction of these needs is possible through implementation of adaptive learning (figure 4). That is why HEIs might consider possibilities of implementation adaptive learning elements with the means already used at a particular university One of such examples can be LMS Moodle which is popular among educational institutions as it is open source, can be customized and offers a lot of different solutions for various learning purposes. Considering all above mentioned information, Moodle LMS provides teachers with possibilities to implement personalization and adaptation of educational process tasks
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