Personalised Learner Experience

Students now have the potential to use technology to gain access to a greater range of learning materials in more exciting ways than ever before. The learner experience can be greatly improved by the use of mobile technology such as small lightweight laptops and the use of portable video recorders to record and analyse events both inside and outside the classroom. Technology can be used to create individualised programmes for learners and give them the ability to monitor their own progress. It can help them collect evidence, manage individual target setting and communicate with local as well as distant peers through the use of online collaborative tools.

The use of technology has had a massive impact on the way colleges can deliver a personalised approach to learning. Email correspondence between teachers and learners is the main way they report that technology supports personalising learning, enabling learners to contact teachers in their own time and in their own way. The development of e-portfolios has had a large contribution to personalisation as had the use of technology to tailor resources to the needs of the individual. Through the use of mobile laptops, the learner now has the ability to learn anywhere, any place and any time.