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, ...

The Knowledge Management paradigm of Communities of Practice can be efficiently realized in web-based environments, especially if one considers the extended social networks that have proliferated within the internet. In terms of increasing performance through the exchange of knowledge and shared learning, individual characteristics, such as learners’ preferences that relate to group working, ma...

BACKGROUND Communication styles and communication difficulties may impact on the ability of general practitioners to provide best possible health care, particularly for patients with intellectual and other developmental disabilities. OBJECTIVE To highlight potential difficulties GPs may face in consultations with adult patients with an intellectual disability and to raise awareness among GPs ...

This article reports on the findings from a study that intended to consider validity of model reading comprehension. In process coding resulting verbal protocols, ‘feel’ or experience actual readers was lost, as individuality participants. Narratives were then developed describe and recapture individual nature each reader’s approach making sense texts they read. After those narratives developed...

Although current literature on learning styles shows that matching a teacher’s instructional style with the learning styles of students affects performance in a classroom environment, little is known about the influence of learning styles in online interaction. The paper argues that students’ individual learning styles influences how students interact online and that rather than adapt to user’s...

In this study the effects of a worksite stress management intervention on changes in coping styles were examined. Ninety-five participants were randomly assigned to an experimental group participating in the intervention or to a control group with a delayed intervention. The stress management intervention was structured on enhancing so-called positive coping styles focused on problem solving an...