NEW FORM OF E-LEARNING - ADAPTIVE E-LEARNING

Process of informatization and establishment of information technologies hasn't bypassed education. Nowadays in a world of information society we cannot imagine education without its electronic form. In the last few years we can observe continuous trend of individualization of study programmes, in both full-time and combined form. By merging these two trends electronic form of education and individualization - into one, we tend to create 'individual electronic education'. This paper deals with complex proposition of learning management system, which will be able to guarantee individual electronic education. It is learning management system so called virtual teacher, which can automatically adapt to individual student characteristics and learning style. It adapts the process of education to static and dynamically changing characteristics of student. In order to adapt the learning process to changing characteristics, system needs to have a sufficiently rich supply of different styles and forms of teaching, styles of learning, memory types and another student characteristic. The information about these characteristics as well as methods for creation of adaptive learning materials are also contained in this paper. It is one of the new trends in individualization of education. It enables adaptation of learning materials, not just to adapt to user environment or passage thorough these materials.