Implementing Web-based educational environment requires not only developing appropriate architectures, but also incorporating human factors considerations. User interface becomes the major channel to convey information in e-learning context: a well-designed and friendly enough interface is thus the key element in helping users to get the best results quickly. Interface settings will affect the ...

In this article, we show a method of research-action performed in a second grade primary school (7 year-old students), where the games are used in the didactic activities in order to improve the students' linguistic skills and to analyse the different styles of learning adopted by the children. This research was conducted according to VK-Selverman model of learning. Firstly, the teacher wrote a...

One hundred final year undergraduate students accessed reading material and tutorial activities in the form of hypertext documents with the Netscape browser and their learning styles were classified according to Kolb’s (1984) four-way classification of Divergent, Accommodative, Convergent and Assimilative. It was expected that, in the same way that formal lectures and final examinations suit pa...

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been considered as an effective language teaching methodology. However, its applicability for lower-proficiency learners in EFL contexts has not been adequately justified. Moreover, the possible mediating effect of the experiential learning styles on academic listening TBLT has not been targeted in the literature, a gap that this study attempts to fill. T...

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...

BACKGROUND Learning and training basic life support (BLS)-especially external chest compressions (ECC) within the BLS-algorithm-are essential resuscitation training for laypersons as well as for health care professionals. The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of learning styles on the performance of BLS and to identify whether all types of learners are sufficiently addressed...

conceptsActivist/accommodator style Pragmatist/converger styleTheorist/assimilator styleReflective observationActive experimentation

Learning styles encapsulate the preferences of the students regarding to how they learn. By including information about the student learning style, computer-based educational systems become able of adapting a course to the individual characteristics of the students. In accomplishing this goal, educational systems have been mostly based on the use of questionnaires for establishing a student lea...

The goal of this study was to determine preferred learning styles of first year medical students of BankuraSammilani Medical College, Bankura, a rural medical college of West Bengal, India. Methods: A cross sectional study of first year medical students with 65 male and 30 female (n=95) was performed. The validated VARK questionnaire Version7 was used to categorize the preferred mode of learnin...

The generation of an idea that goes through several phases is affected by individual factors, interests, preferences and motivation. The purpose of this research was to analyze the difference in difficulties of generating ideas according to individual learning styles. A total of 375 technical students from four technical universities in Malaysia were randomly selected as samples. The Kolb Learn...