Understanding learners’ characteristics and behaviour using hypermedia systems in education is still a challenge for most developers and educators. This study seeks to understand the influence of learning style on learners’ use and preference of a Computer Based Learning (CBL) program which was developed using two navigational structures (linear and non-linear). The study presents the findings ...

Many tertiary education institutions struggle in identifying how best to teach students to learn statistics. Finding factors which advocate successful and effective learning is considered vital in any tertiary education institutions. Numerous studies have been conducted within the context of teaching and learning in order to determine the factors that contribute to a better learning environment...

This study compares the way English-speaking children and adult second language learners of English resolve relative clause attachment ambiguities in sentences such as The dean liked the secretary of the professor who was reading a letter. Two groups of advanced L2 learners of English with Greek or German as their L1 participated in a set of off-line and on-line tasks. While the participants' d...

Existing personalized learning systems (PLSs) have primarily focused on providing learning analytics using data from learners. In this paper, we extend the capability of current PLSs by incorporating data from instructors. We propose a latent factor model that analyzes instructors’ preferences in explicitly excluding particular questions from learners’ assignments in a particular subject domain...