Objectives and Content of E-module “Tools for Adaptive Learning. Learning Styles” within the MOOC Course “ICT Tools for E-learning” Cover Image

Cele i zawartość e-modułu „Narzędzia do adaptacyjnego kształcenia. Style kształcenia” stworzonego w ramach kursu MOOC „Narzędzia teleinformatyczne dla e-learningu”
Objectives and Content of E-module “Tools for Adaptive Learning. Learning Styles” within the MOOC Course “ICT Tools for E-learning”

Author(s): Josef Malach, Kateřina KOSTOLÁNYOVÁ, Milan Chmura, Ingrid Nagyová, Tatiana Prextová
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Library and Information Science, Electronic information storage and retrieval
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: MOOC course; adaptive learning; adaptive instruction; learning styles; adaptive learning tools; adaptive learning systems; intelligent adaptive learning; adaptive educational hypermedia systems; adapt

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the objectives and content of the educational module “Toolsfor Adaptive Learning. Learning Styles” within the MOOC course “ICT Tools for E-learning,” which is being developed at the University of Ostrava as an outcome of the IRNet project. The main aim of the course is to provide both academic scholars and students with the theoretical foundation of adaptive learning that will allow them to acquire skills, to use the existing courses in the existing adaptive e-systems, and/or to create new courses and systems. The content of the course includes the following: defining basic constructs used in the course; overview of the development of adaptive learning with the use of educational technologies,its theoretical concepts, and representatives; presentation of the results of the previous researches and educational effects of adaptive (e-)learning; and some of the concepts of adaptive learning that have recently been developed at the University of Ostrava.

  • Issue Year: 2/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 28-40
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English