Supporting Users in Creating Pedagogically Sound Personalised Learning Objects Aoife Brady, Owen Conlan, Vincent Wade and Declan Dagger School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland {Aoife.Brady, Owen.Conlan, Vincent.Wade, Declan.Dagger}@cs.tcd.ie Abstract. Successful eLearning is predicated on the application of pedagogies appropriate to online education that respond to the capabilities and needs of the learners. Typically, designing and assembling personalized Learning Objects that respond to the pedagogical needs of a variety of different learners is an expensive and time-consuming process requiring both domain and educational expertise. Educators have the domain expertise and formal or informal pedagogical knowledge to create quality Learning Objects. However, they lack the tools and often the specific knowledge of online pedagogical approaches that make it time efficient for them to do so. This paper describes the motivation behind, the workflow supported by and the evaluation of the LO Generator, a tool that offers personalized support and scaffolding for users, who are not necessarily content creation or pedagogical experts, in assembling pedagogically sound personalized Learning Objects. Keywords: Personalization, Pedagogy, eLearning, Learning Object Creation 1 Introduction One of the key difficulties in achieving a large-scale take up of Adaptive Hypermedia for eLearning is the cost, complexity and technical barriers to allow non technical teachers and learners to design their own adaptive eLearning experiences. The principle of ‘one size not fitting all’ is evident not only in static learning content, but also in adaptive content, such as Adaptive Hypermedia, that is created within a particular context that may not suit other uses. Over the last few years a number of adaptive eLearning tools for authoring have begun to appear as witnessed by the success of the A3H Workshop [1]. A number of these tools have been little more than technical editors to allow for the generation of adaptive content [2]. Others have focused on designing complete adaptive courses, e.g. ACCT [3], WHURLE [4]. However, in blended learning a frequent requirement from teachers, academics and end users [5] is for a specific learning resource on a particular topic that is capable of adapting to the pedagogical needs of individual students. This requirement for finer grained learning objects should be satisfied with minimal user design effort. That said, this effort needs to be balanced against a requirement for pedagogically appropriate and adaptive learning objects (LO) that meet the needs of the end user. This paper describes the LO Generator, a tool that provides personalized support to users in the creation of pedagogically sound personalized Learning Objects.