PERSONALIZATION OF E-LEARNING BY USING OF LEARNING PROCESSES WITH BRANCHING D. Domazet, N. Gavrilović Belgrade Metropolitan University (SERBIA) Abstract In this paper, an approach to personalization of e-learning is proposed and implemented. This method provides different learning materials to various categories of students. The method of personalization uses fine-grained learning objects and learning processes with branching. Each learning activity uses atomic or complex learning objects. Evaluation activities measure achieved learning results and direct a student to appropriate next learning or other activity. Students also have the opportunity to choose one of offered learning or other activities, according to the overall design of a learning process. Using evaluation results, or students' choice of suggested activities, a master model of a learning process may generate different learning paths to various categories of student, providing them different teaching materials for each lesson of an online course. Keywords: e-learning; personalized e-learning; adaptable e--learning processes; learning objects; learning processes; personalization of learning. 1 INTRODUCTION Learning process consists of learning and verification activities. Each online lesson may be specified as a learning process. Usually, this learning process is linear, providing sequential execution of learning activities. All students, in this case, must use all learning activities and use the same learning material. This is a drawback of linear learning processes, as students are different, have different knowledge background and levels, have different learning objectives, motivations and learning styles. To improve the efficiency of a learning process, it is necessary to take into account these differences among students. This has been a favourite research topic, and many research approaches have been suggested [1]. Different adaptive and personalized e-learning methods have been proposed. In this paper, an approach to e-learning personalization developed at the Belgrade Metropolitan University (BMU) is presented 2 METHODOLOGY Learning is represented as a process consisting of learning activities and other events that may evaluate learning results or may allow students to communicate with their instructor or other students. A personalized e-learning process provides learning activities that are the most suitable for a student. This means that they contain an appropriate amount of new knowledge, in line with his capabilities and objectives that a student can understand easier and learn faster. It is usual that a course has some online lessons. Each online lesson may have many learning activities providing a different amount of new knowledge. Instead of using a linear learning process that provides the same amount of knowledge to all online students, the goal of a personalized e- learning process is to provide different learning activities, with different amount of knowledge to students with different needs, capabilities, and interests, or to different categories of students. Each course has a syllabus specifying what a student must learn and know. As students have different background and starting knowledge, different learning capabilities and motivations, and may have different learning styles, it is necessary to offer them different learning processes with different learning materials. The best students usually expect and can learn more than is planned. Low-level students are interested only in passing exams and are interested to acquire the minimum of expected. The goal of our personalization of e-learning is to offer different amount of knowledge to different categories of students. The exceptional students will be provided with the learning material allowing them to achieve knowledge levels above the red line. Good students will get the learning material that will enable them to achieve the planned, target knowledge levels, i.e. near the red line. Low-level Proceedings of EDULEARN19 Conference 1st-3rd July 2019, Palma, Mallorca, Spain ISBN: 978-84-09-12031-4 10432