Human-Centered Design / Practice
User-directed customization
Definition
The ability for users to adapt how a learning technology behaves or is configured to fit their needs, experience, context, or desired level of support.
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Customization can make a system useful across diverse learners and practitioners without assuming that one configuration or level of guidance will work for everyone.
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Sources and evidence
- CIRCLS / Digital Promise — Unveiling the Value of Exploration — PDF p. 37 · report p. 37 — User-directed customization and learner variability — systems that users can use in their own way (direct)
- CIRCLS / Digital Promise — Unveiling the Value of Exploration — PDF p. 38 · report p. 38 — Teacher-AI collaboration — accommodating different needs and allowing teachers to customize the amount of customization and support (supporting)