Guideline for the development of personalized technology-enhanced learning in science, technology, and mathematics education

Abstract

With a rapidly changing world, science, technology, and mathematics (STM) hold the key to achieve a certain level of development. Technology in education is, therefore, a key ingredient to enhance learning as it helps produce creative and lifelong learning individual students. Recent progress in computer and communication technology has encouraged the researchers to demonstrate the pivotal influences of technological personalized learning environments on student learning performance improvement. Many researchers have been investigating the development of such learning environment by basing upon the concept-effect relationship model on student learning performance improvement. Such learning environment has been demonstrated to be useful for helping teachers to diagnose learning problems for individual students according to test answers, and to provide personalized remedial learning guidance for improving students' learning performance. However, each student has different preferences and needs, which are very important factors, affecting on STM learning ability. Moreover, individualizing the learning experience for each student is an important goal for educational systems. It is very crucial to provide the different styles of learners with different learning environments that are more preferred and more efficient to them. Therefore, this paper proposes a guideline for the development of personalized technology-enhanced learning where the student's conceptual learning problems and preferences are diagnosed, and then user interfaces are customized in an adaptive manner to accommodate such learning problems and preferences, in order to emphasize on promoting STM education.