Adaptive personalized learning: Implementation of emerging technologies in higher education

Abstract

The fourth industrial revolution determined the increase of active research on redesigning universities’ educational programs to modern technological advancement. Thus, the education system is faced with the challenge of applying an adaptive self-sufficient learning environment that meets labor market’s demands and students’ needs. The importance of adaptive personalized learning in the electronic information and educational environment is to create conditions that provide each student with possibilities to choose and compose learning content, methods and means. Moreover, students can manage their own learning and pace, and obtain interdisciplinary knowledge, professional and soft skills. The aim of this study was to design an adaptive personalized learning model in electronic information and educational environment for Russian higher education institution. This study examined US and Russian higher education institutions’ successful models of individual educational path, adaptive and/or personalized learning. The comparative and content analyses revealed various possibilities for using this model in an electronic information and educational environment. For instance, the model would be able to propose students individual learning path, analyze their level of educational materials’ assimilation and adapt learning programs to improve their performance.