Integration of Teaching Taxonomy into Personalized Learning Management System using Felder-Silverman Model

Learning Management System (LMS) are used by many education institutions in Malaysia as a form of teaching and learning tool. The reason on the selection of LMS usage are due to the ease of usage especially in preparation, management as well as the method of delivery in the teaching and learning process. Popular LMS platform such as Blackboard and Moodle are normally adopted by many education institutions. But the usage of LMS as a teaching and learning tool often overlook the suitability of the teaching taxonomy based on the difference learning style of student. In general, LMS will treat all the students in the similar manner and overlook the preferences of learning style of student. Hence, the objectives of this paper are to integrate a proper teaching taxonomy based on the student learning style when developing the teaching materials which later being used in the LMS platform. The motivation of the research is driven by theories which claim that by providing an appropriate teaching material which matches the preferences of a student learning style, it will help to increase the learning performance. The process of matching the teaching taxonomy and student learning style is defined as personalization. The research methodology involved includes literature review, applied statistics method and also survey. The experiment is conducted in a lab environment which consists of 150 students from the background of Arts and Social Sciences. The experiment is followed by a questionnaire feedback for further analysis. The results indicate that when a proper teaching taxonomy matches with the learning style of a student, it will increase the learning performance of the student. In short, by providing personalization through preparing the proper teaching materials which matches the student learning style it will have a positive impact on the student learning performance.