Personalizing Course Design, Build and Delivery Using PLErify

Abstract

The Course-Building technique called PLErify was developed by the author in response to the emerging roles of university faculty in the technology-driven teaching with the rising popularity of AI and deep learning. Topics that support personalized teaching and learning using technology to make it more efficient, more effective and more pragmatic. Early attempts at pedagogy and trends that pushed the personalization movement are explained. The progress of the project in a Web App format is detailed focusing on a faculty building a sample hybrid course planned for a course offering of a framework of digital resources within the app in a technology-rich smart classroom. The PLErify course-building Template is explained with methodologies to add content to it in various ways with sugges-tions to insert multimodal techniques, e.g., Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Simulation, however applicable, alongside numerical data-science-supported technologies that will comprise the most part of course presentation technique. A portion of a full course will be demonstrated using PLErify with an accompanying Course Evaluation for Professors to mull to prepare for course redesign current to improve next year’s offering of same course.