This workshop introduces an Adaptive Web-Based Educational platform that maximizes the usefulness of the online information that online students retrieve from the web. It shows in a data driven format that information needs to be personalized and adapted to the needs of individual students. Therefore, educational materials need to be tailored to fit these needs: learning styles, prior knowledge...

One of the principal debates in the ®eld of individual di€erences in `learning style' (often used to include cognitive style) has centred around the proliferation of constructs and measures, many of which have been developed with little regard for extant theories and instruments. This study explored the construct validity of learning style as operationalised in the Learning Styles Inventory (LS...

Purpose – This Special Issue contains selected papers from the thirteenth annual European Learning Styles Information Network (ELSIN) conference held in Ghent, Belgium in June 2008. One of the key aims of ELSIN is to promote understanding of individual learning and cognitive differences through the dissemination of international multidisciplinary research about learning and cognitive styles and...

E-Learning platforms are very successful in e-education but provide little adaptivity. Personalized courses which adapt to the needs of each individual learner improve the learning progress. In this paper, we introduce a meta-model for enhancing e-learning platforms with the use of adaptivity. This meta-model enables the platforms to provide different courses that adjust to the needs of each le...

In the past decade, a number of adaptive hypermedia learning systems have been developed. However, most of the systems tailored presentation content and navigational support basing on prior knowledge or cognitive styles of students separately. There is a need to, however, explore how the two individual difference characteristics could be combined in adaptive hypermedia learning systems in order...

It is often assumed by universities that entry-level students possess the skills necessary to use computing facilities effectively. Yet computer literacy amongst Indigenous students remains unacceptably low. In this paper a design for a computer literacy course is presented which endeavours to affirm the cultural values and identity of Indigenous students. It does this by drawing on Indigenous ...

In peer assessment, the awarding grades might not accurately reflect the students’ achievement due to potential rating bias or individual abilities. The proposed methodology aims at aggregating students’ ratings to reduce personal bias using agent negotiation. We consider individual learning styles of assessors into the negotiation process and show by an illustrative example and an experiment h...