| Background and Motivation
In recent years, renewed interest in learner and group-centered
teaching and learning has yielded adaptive instruction and
collaborative learning to provide flexible and powerful alternatives
to the design of e-learning environments. Adaptive instruction
argues that, learners will be able to achieve their learning
goals more efficiently when pedagogical procedures accommodate
their individual differences. Collaborative learning is supposed
to lead to a deeper level of learning, critical thinking,
and shared understanding, providing opportunities for developing
social and communication skills. Accordingly, adaptive e-learning
environments focus on the development of ways to support learners
to undertake control over their own learning, whilst collaborative
e-learning environments focus on effective collaboration.
A number of important contributions concerned with designing
personalisation in the area of adaptive educational systems
have been made to date, mainly focusing on individuals. Considering
that a group consists of individuals and also has its own
identity, 'personalisation at group level' may target both
to the members of a group and to the whole group. Exploring
the ways that personalisation may affect and increase different
types of interactions which trigger learning mechanisms at
individual and group level, is a challenging goal. To this
end, this workshop aims to deepen our understanding of how
learners work at individual and group level and investigate
how personalisation could support learning and assessment
at both levels.
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