If you would like to create a personalized e-learning experience, then consider the traits, background, level of expertise of a particular online learner. Persona’s give us the opportunity to understand our students, their behaviours, address their concerns and support their learning.
Some course sites are conversational and enjoyable. They seem to be designed with real people in mind. A course site creator could use a personas to help remind them about who their target audience is
“A persona is a single representation of a subset of your target audience who have similar behaviors, goals, motivations”
Learner Personas.docx (207 kb) | Document Last Updated 2017