Learning management systems (LMS) are successfully used in eeducation but they provide the same courses for all learners rather than considering the learners’ individual needs. In recent years, more and more research is done on incorporating individual characteristics such as learning styles in technology enhanced learning. According to educational theories, learners with a strong preference fo...

Background: Despite the implementation of new training programs, neglecting individual differences in terms of learning styles can be taken into account as one of the reasons for poor levels of self-care behaviors in patients suffering from diabetes. Aim: The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of training according to the learning styles on self-care behaviors among individu...

This study explores how students’ learning styles influence students’ learning performance in solving complex problems in an Anesthesiology class over a three-week period as a case-based e-learning environment is implemented in a conventional lectureoriented classroom in a dental school. Seventy students from an Anesthesiology class participated in this study. Five learning-outcomes tests and t...

Learning styles and affective states influence students’ learning. The purpose of this study is to develop a conceptual framework for identifying and integrating learning styles and affective states of a learner into web-based learning management systems and therefore provide learners with adaptive courses and additional individualized pedagogical guidance that is tailored to their learning sty...

Collaborative learning enables individual learners to combine their own expertise, experience and ability to accomplish a mutual learning goal. The grouping of learners, and learning from social interactions with peer-learners, are two basic characteristics of collaborative learning. For individual learners to benefit from collaborative learning, individual learners with different characteristi...

INTRODUCTION Educators need to be aware of different learning styles to effectively tailor instructional strategies and methods to cater to the students' learning needs and support a conductive learning environment. The VARK [an acronym for visual (V), aural (A), read/write (R) and kinesthetic (K)] instrument is a useful model to assess learning styles. The aim of this study was to use the VARK...

background and purpose: learning style is the processing of information and comprehension. if teachers present contents in a style that matches a student’s preferred learning style, academic performance and success will improve. if content retention improves it will result in an increase in the test scores. it is also important to determine if students, as a group, fit into a particular style o...

Many researches have been conducted with respect to learning styles in technology enhanced learning, especially in the area of adaptive learning. Most of these researches used assumptions about how students with different learning styles behave in a system based on the respective learning style theory. However, most of these theories are developed for traditional learning rather than online lea...

Identification of learning styles is an issue with a long history, most of it taking place outside of science and engineering education. Very little effort has been devoted to study these profiles for Middle-Eastern students and contrastive studies of Middle-Eastern and American learning styles are rarely found. In this paper, the learning style profiles of introductory computer engineering stu...

Collaborative learning enables individual learners to combine their own expertise, experience and ability to accomplish a mutual learning goal. The grouping of learners, and learning from social interactions with peer-learners, are two basic characteristics of collaborative learning. For individual learners to benefit from collaborative learning, individual learners with different characteristi...