PERSONALIZED LEARNING ON THE MOODLE PLATFORM USING THE CICEI CONDITIONALS: SUPPORT COURSE IN MATHEMATICS

In this paper, we present an experiment with the creation and design of a MOODLE course with conditionals developed by the Innovation Center for Information Society (CICEI). This support course in mathematics (CAM) aims at first year students on Engineering or Business degrees and it has been offered at several degrees at the Universitat Jaume I of Castellon and the Universidad de Zaragoza. The period for student participation in CAM runs from the middle of October to the middle of December, 2009. We present our reasons to personalize learning itineraries and we describe the educational context where they are applied. We also detail the key questions in the design of CAM such as: establishing targets and selection of learning units, organization of different learning paths and conditioning of the activities, establishing control or evaluation mechanisms, arranging online tutor mechanisms and mechanisms to find out about the opinion of the user. Information about the starting point, the conclusions and the lessons learned from the experiment is also shown. The close collaboration between the two groups (developers and teachers) during this experiment will enable us to improve the technological part of the CICEI Conditionals as well as the methodological part through the design of the learning itineraries.