Volition-driven adaption following the individual goals of engineers in e-learning processes

Today´s adaptive e-learning applications mostly focus on the presentation of content according to users´ knowledge. The authors discuss the relevance of learners´ individual needs and goals in the learning process called as volition. Furthermore, the paper describes a research process that (a) develops a tool to empirically evaluate and define relevant gratifications that engineers motivate to learn, (b) defines abstract concepts for these gratifications.