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...

Flexible delivery of educational resources must take account of cultural variables and recognise the specific learning needs, preferences and styles of learners. In designing instruction, there may be a tension between the need to ensure access for a multicultural student population, while at the same time taking into account the need for localisation to accommodate learners’ cognitive styles a...

Background The student diversity in the Vocational Training Council (VTC) has been increasing in recent years. With most students coming from the Post 90s Generation, they share characteristics of the Net Generation, who are ‘associated with new forms of sociality’[1]. It is therefore important to update teachers to the learning styles and learning preferences of their students. Learning style ...

Learning styles have become a growing issue in the pedagogical area and been explored by many studies recent years. The concepts theories of learning could significant implications for designing teaching instruction. Thus, this study aims to identify students’ preferences their perspectives on English context. Particularly, it investigates choices how they perceive practice. It was conducted su...

Student learning may be classified according to the sensory modalities by which one prefers to take in information. One such classification scheme uses the VARK instrument, which categorizes learning preferences as visual (V), auditory (A), reading-writing (R), or kinesthetic (K). Many students have a single, strong preferences ("unimodal"), whereas others have multiple ("multimodal") learning ...

Background Students differ in their preferred methods of acquiring, processing, and recalling new information. The aim of this study was to investigate the learning style preferences of undergraduate dental students and examine the influence of gender, Grade Point Average (GPA), and academic year levels on these preferences. Methods The Arabic version of the visual, aural, read/write, and kin...

objectives the purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between the learning styles of postgraduate students in kerman university of medical sciences and their baseline characteristics. patients and methods in this cross-correlation study, 400 postgraduate students of kerman university of medical sciences were randomly selected. to collect data, the kolb’s learning styles question...

There is a vast body of literature that indicates students not having homogeneous learning patterns. Just as the students vary, their learning styles, cognitive abilities, and learning preferences vary; similarly, instructors employ different teaching methods. Numerous researchers have hypothesized that when students’ unique learning dimensions are matched with similar teaching styles, it can h...

This study investigated the influences of learning styles/preferences, prior computer skills and experience with online courses on adult learners’ knowledge acquisition in a web-based special education course. Forty-six adult learners who enrolled in a web-based special education course participated in the study. The results of the study showed that (a) learning styles/preferences had significa...