APTeL 2018 - Adaptive and Personalised Technology-Enhanced Learning (APTeL)

Advanced learning technologies keep transforming what people learn, how they learn it and the ways they access learning opportunities in formal and informal contexts. As the educational landscape evolves, learning gets more structured around flexible curricula that have to accommodate the needs of diverse student audiences, and educational organizations which offer services for accessing educational content and resources through a variety of platforms, devices, and learning contexts. In this framework, adapting the educational experience to learners' preferences, needs and background becomes critical. The challenge concerns providing an alternative to the "one-size-fits-all" approach in designing learning technologies, taking into consideration individual differences among learners and the various contexts within which learning will take place. The aim is to maximize learner satisfaction, learning retention and efficiency of the learning process. Adaptation can take place both at individual and group/community levels, whereby intelligent and adaptive technologies are integrated to empower socially-grounded learning experiences.