personalisation of e-learning, adaptive instruction, author module, teaching styles, teacher-centred, student-centred

The paper deals with teaching styles in an intelligent tutoring environment. In our project Adaptive individualised instruction on e-learning we aim to find a way, how to personalise instruction. We defined several modules of this intelligent tutoring in e-learning system: the learner module, the author module and the module of adaptive algorithms. The author module consists of study materials that are tailored to individual students. To build the author module we need to determine teaching styles as a specific way, how to present knowledge to learners. A bibliographic search on teaching styles brings two terms used most frequently: teacher-centred and student-centred. In the adapted e-course the student-centred approach prevails