Conceptual Framework for Personalised Learning

Philipp Melzeranalyses influence factors of personalised learning aiming to lay out design principles for personalised blended learning courses. Finding only weak support for a matching between learning styles and teaching methods,he defineslearning tasks as the object of further investigations. Following the idea of a community of inquiry, the author developsthe Personalised Learning Framework (PLF), modelling personalised learning as a process of selection as well as usage of learning tasks and learning tools by the community of inquiry. To evaluate the PLF further, a traditional university course is transformed to a personalised flipped classroom course.He showshow personalised learning can be supported in concrete learning interventions using specific learning methods and technologies.