This paper reports a study exploring the learning styles and perceptions of a group of undergraduate and postgraduate learners in a university in the UK in relation to using the web for learning. In particular, we explore the sequential/global learning style dimension (which is concerned with the progress of understanding) in relation to three categories of web-based interaction: learnertutor, ...

Learning management systems (LMS) are very successful in e-education but provide only little adaptivity. Adapting courses to the needs of individual learners such as to their learning styles improves the learning progress of learners. However, a requirement for providing adaptivity is to know the needs of learners. In this paper, we describe an approach that enables LMS to identify the learning...

BACKGROUND Surgical education is evolving under the dual pressures of an enlarging body of knowledge required during residency and mounting work-hour restrictions. Changes in surgical residency training need to be based on available educational models and research to ensure successful training of surgeons. Experiential learning theory, developed by David Kolb, demonstrates the importance of ind...

The adoption level of emerging web technologies is on the rise in academic settings. However, a major obstacle in the practice of web-based instruction is the limited understanding of learners’ characteristics and perceptions about technology use. Thus there is a need to understand the relationship between students’ learning styles and their preferences for instructional strategies, including t...

many researchers have investigated different aspects of learning styles. nevertheless, few studies have considered interactions between the notions of learning styles and “good language learners’” achievement. the present study aimed at exploring dominant learning style preferences by senior high-school students and comparing their preferences with those by “good language learners”. to this goa...

Personalized recommenders have proved to be of use as a solution to reduce the information overload ‎problem. Especially in Adaptive Hypermedia System, a recommender is the main module that delivers ‎suitable learning objects to learners. Recommenders suffer from the cold-start and the sparsity problems. ‎Furthermore, obtaining learner’s preferences is cumbersome. Most studies have only focused...

Background: Given importance to learning and given priority to this point that human beings acquire more of their abilities and competencies through learning, learning styles are focused as a pivotal factor in realization of mental and potential abilities. Empowering academic members in the areas of teaching, scholarship, and leadership leads to the achievement of the missions and goals of the ...

background: learning style of students is one of the most important factors which influences on student learning. some negative effects on nursing student learning can be observed as a result of imbalance between it and teaching methods. using appropriate methods of teaching and determination of student learning styles can facilitate their leaning. hence, this study aims to identify the most co...

This review focuses on the effect of personality on learning styles of students and also briefly discusses the relationship between learning styles and culture. A review of the current literature reveals that there has been a lot of research on the effect of personality on learning processes in different age groups and at different circumstances. Personality plays an important role that affects...