Abstract: The development of “Internet plus” provides excellent infrastructure for personalized education principle — teaching students in accordance with their aptitude Expanded instant messaging software such as group function of QQ not only has powerful capability of group communication, but also can help achieve personalized social interaction Combined with the learning management system (LMS), group function of QQ can meet the personalized learning requirements of students and can provide better support for students’ learning activities Firstly, the requirements of personalized learning environment (PLE) and the characteristics of the group function of QQ were analyzed and then a framework for PLE based on group function of QQ was proposed Secondly, the PLE for graduation thesis tutoring was applied to verify the feasibility of the framework At last, the experimental results were collected and analyzed The results illustrated that the PLE based on group function of QQ could encourage students to get involved in the study and improve their academic performance

Key words:  personalized learning environment, PLE, graduation thesis, instant feedback