Students’ Personalized Learning Model, Based on the Virtual Learning Environment of Intellectual Tutoring "Learning with No Limits"

Coordinator

Maksymov Maksym Vitaliiovych
Email: maksymov.maksym@op.edu.ua

Project goal

Adaptation of EU student-centered practices through a personalized learning model with virtual tutoring and formative assessment to increase the flexibility, inclusiveness, and quality of higher education in Ukraine in line with the challenges of the modern market.

Project objectives

1. Enhance student motivation to learning through applying the by-the-learner approach and create conditions to meet students’ individual needs associated with differentiation and personalization of academic trajectories.
2. Increase transparency and comprehensibility of education and assessment for students (including the results of non-formal education), reducing students’ anxiety as for their own professional expertise and forming their confidence to achieve efficient results.
3. Create extra opportunities to get a higher education for people with disabilities and specific academic needs through inclusive education and the implemented model of personalized learning and hybrid technologies.
4. Improve educational programs of universities by updating the process of formation of competencies and the distribution of program results of student learning between educational components; to improve the quality of teaching materials.
5. Facilitate students’ mobility, including in virtual mode, on a university/country scale, inter-university/country levels, between academic sectors and forms of education (formal/informal/correspondence) by acknowledging and swapping grades/credits.
6. Ensure feedback on students’, teachers’ and administration’s efficiency.
7. Enhance interaction of all the interested parties including employers, the community, and controlling bodies (the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the National Agency of Quality Assurance for Higher Education) to create a flexible mechanism of adapting academic results to market changes and modern technologies.
8. Provide the labor market with highly qualified specialists endowed with competencies aligned with high standards of EU quality and employers’ current demands; create a continuous learning culture.

Target audience

• Teachers, academic, and administrative staff of project partner universities;
• Students at the first, second, and third cycles of higher education – BSc, MSc, and PhD programs;
• Employers – in particular, professional associations and IT sector companies involved as associated partners;
• Applicants and their parents – graduates of comprehensive schools, vocational colleges, and technical schools;
• Higher education institutions not involved in the consortium, as potential users of learning materials, educational programs, and the SMART-PL platform;
• Enterprises of high-tech industries and research institutions interested in experts with up-to-date competencies and the ability to continuous learning;
• State educational authorities, in particular structural divisions of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, responsible for planning and development of human resources.

Expected results

1. University Co-working Centres «Learning with No Limits» are organised at each partner university.
2. The information-diagnostic online SMART platform based on the adaptation of an open-source virtual learning environment is developed.
3. Methodological support for a model of personalized learning is developed.
4. Testing of the personalized learning and intellectual mentoring model is performed.

Current status of implementation

• A survey of 119 students and 112 teachers has been conducted at Odesa Polytechnic National University.
• A survey in 6 more higher education institutions has been organized by the Institute of Higher Education of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
• A comparative analysis of EU and Ukrainian practices regarding a personalized approach has been made.
• The Centre for Inclusive Education “Learning Without Limits” has been opened.
• A series of trainings on competency-based learning and formative assessment have been performed.

More detailed information is provided in the attachments.

Project partners

• Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia;
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium;
• Politechnika Wroclawska, Poland;
• Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine;
• Kryvyi Rih National University, Ukraine;
• V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine;
• Odesa National Polytechnic University, Ukraine;
• Khmelnytsky National University, Ukraine;
• Kherson State University, Ukraine;
• Institute of Higher Education of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine;
• National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance, Ukraine;
• Public Organization "Ukrainian Scientific and Educational IT Society", Ukraine;
• Kryvyi Rih Foundation of the Future, Ukraine.

Funding and disclaimer

"Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them."

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