This experimental study investigated the effects of multimedia preferences and learning styles on undergraduate student achievement in an adaptive e-learning system for electronics course at the Yogyakarta State University Indonesia. The findings showed that students in which their multimedia preferences and learning style matched with the way the material presented in online electronics course...

BACKGROUND Learning styles and approaches of individual undergraduate medical students vary considerably and as a consequence, their learning needs also differ from one student to another. This study was conducted to identify different learning styles and approaches of pre-clinical, undergraduate medical students and also to determine the relationships of learning preferences with performances ...

This study examines aspects of student diversity in a Web-based learning environment. The study aimed to explore and characterize students' Web usage patterns of content items and asynchronous discourse, to identify learning style preferences and to asses the relationship between Web usage patterns and learning styles. Results suggest that when developing a Web-based learning environment, the d...

User models are essential to e-learning systems, giving students learning continuity, tutors evidence of students' progress, and both a way to personalize students' learning materials to their abilities and preferences. Personalizing information has long been the motivation behind developing e-learning systems. Adaptive educational systems attempt to maintain a learning style profile for each s...

This paper presents the results of an empirical study conducted with students following a distance education program. In the study questions posed were whether students could perform well in examinations using only the Learning Management System (LMS), whether they could use it in an efficient way and whether there was a relationship between students’ learning styles, number of LMS hits and lea...

Students have specific learning style preferences, and these preferences may be different between male and female students. Understanding a student's learning style preference is an important consideration when designing classroom instruction. Therefore, we administered the visual, auditory, reading/writing, kinesthetic (VARK) learning preferences questionnaire to our first-year medical student...

This study aimed to explore the effect of rote learning (word list learning) on boosting visual and auditory learners' vocabulary retention. To this end, the Oxford Placement Test (2007) was administered, in order to identify the learners' proficiency level. Then 31 subjects who were studying at the Iran Language Institute (ILI) in Bushehr, Iran, and belonged to available sampling were singled ...

The purpose of this study was to assess the learning style preferences of students enrolled in various allied health professional programs. Five professions were examined: nursing, physician assistant (PA), occupational therapy (OT), physical therapy (PT), and speech-language pathology (SLP). The assessment instrument used was the Kolb Learning Style Inventory LSI-IIa. The study included 89 sub...

There exists increasing demand for intelligent learning environments which are adaptive to learner’s preferences and tasks. This paper illustrates a study of the intelligent learning environment where the learner’s preferences are diagnosed using learner behavior patterns on user interfaces. In this research, a learning-style model by Felder & Silverman has been adopted as the most appropriate ...

There exists an increasing demand for intelligent learning environments that are adaptive to learner’s preferences and tasks. This paper presents a study of an intelligent learning environment where the learner’s preferences are diagnosed using learner behavior patterns on user interfaces. In this research, a learning-style model by Felder & Silverman has been adopted as an appropriate basis fo...