Designing a Person-Centered Learning Support System

In this work we present the early design steps of a system for supporting person-centered learning (PCL), focusing on the process of transforming PCL principles into system specifications. Although person centered learning has gained significant attention in higher education, it is not clear how the instructor can be efficiently supported to manage the additional workload emerging from the effort to promote PCL and address individual studentspsila learning traits and preferences. To cope with this issue we argue that specific technology systems can be built for supporting students and instructors in implementing various PCL-related tasks. In our approach we develop a pedagogical model based on common PCL principles, which will be supported by a Web-based system and will be used to help students and teachers in tasks like: identifying learning and teaching preferences, increasing their meta cognitive awareness, defining homogeneous or heterogeneous workgroups and negotiating their preferences.