Identifying students’ trends toward personalizing Learning Management System (LMS) at Zarqa University (Extended)

Abstract

Filtering information according to user’s preferences and needs is the focal point of personalization. Personalization as a business model has been used successfully in the e-commerce world by many organizations. The aim of this paper is to work on a proposed e-learning system based on the principle of personalization over the Learning Management System (LMS) available at Zarqa University – Jordan introduced earlier [1]. A questionnaire is delivered to students taking the course ‘web (1)’ at the IT College to measure students’ perception toward personalizing the LMS. The obtained results will be used for further studies to expand the study over more university students at Zarqa University for more general adoption of the idea of personalization in e-learning environment.