This study explored the effects of personality traits (Big Five personalities) and Kolb’s learning styles on academic achievements in a blended learning environment. A total of 200 students who enrolled in a blended communication course were administered questionnaires that assessed the Big Five personality traits and Kolb’s learning styles. The learning outcomes (the course grades) were attrib...

Human resource development practitioners and others do not appear to share a common underlying framework for, and understanding of, “learning style”. Argues that learning style is but one construct which, along with learning preferences and cognitive styles, may be included under the umbrella term “personal style”. Reviews each aspect of the suggested personal style framework and considers its ...

The use of electronic environment in our life has become inevitable fact. In the educational field, the learners find many difficulties to attend a classical mode of learning (in class) that obliges them to be present according to daily schedule. Thus, the E-learning allows the process of learning anywhere and any when. However, the absence of the teacher, in the E-learning process, leads to th...

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...

The increasing advance of mobile devices and wireless technologies has generated great interest in ubiquitous learning (u-learning) among academia, practitioners, and policy makers. However, design elements that incorporate learning styles and learning strategies into u-learning system applications in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) education are still limited. There are two objectives in t...

Differences in the learning styles of students with and without learning disabilities (LD) at a distance-learning university were examined. Two hundred and twelve students answered self-report questionnaires on their learning styles. Results revealed that students with LD preferred to use more stepwise processing, including memorizing and drilling, than NLD students. In addition, students with ...

The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of the problem solving approach to the subject matter approach in teaching given units of instructions to students of varying learning styles. Results indicated that three distinct learning styles were present in high school agriculture classes (fieldindependent, field-dependent, field-neutral). The majority of students was field-indepe...

The rapid growth in the use of learning technologies, particularly the use of the web based technologies and communications have offered educators with many more opportunities to investigate the most suitable learning environments for their students’ learning styles. The purpose of the present study was to examine the students’ learning styles and their views on blended learning. The study was ...