This paper presents the results of a comparative investigation into the learning styles and strategies of effective and ineffective language learners. Subjects for the study were one hundred and ten undergraduate university students in Hong Kong. They were categorized as ‘more effective’ or ‘less effective’ learners, on the basis of their scores on a standardized public English examination admi...

The purpose of this study was to examine whether matching navigation mode of a learning environment with learners’ preferred navigation mode would facilitate their learning in a web environment. Sixty-eight undergraduate students were randomly assigned to treatments (linear vs. nonlinear navigation mode) and received four criterion tests designed to measure different educational objectives imme...

e-Learning systems that produce personalized course offerings for the learner are often expensive, both from a time and financial perspective, to develop and maintain. Learning content personalized to a learners’ cognitive preferences has been shown to produce more effective learning, however many approaches to realizing this form of personalization involve considerable re-authoring of existing...

Collaborative learning allows learners to gain more resources, experiences, and even habits from other group learners, thus improving themselves achieving better outcomes. The existing studies only fully consider the differences in learners' preferences, while ignoring preference of each balance between groups, which is not conducive overall improvement achievements group. To this end, article ...

With the rapid increasing of learning objects (LOs) in a variety of media formats, it becomes quite difficult and complicated task for learners to find suitable LOs based on their needs and preferences. To support personalization, recommender systems can be used to assist learners in finding the appropriate LOs which will be needed for their learning. In this paper, we propose a framework of a ...

BACKGROUND Students commencing their medical training arrive with different educational backgrounds and a diverse range of learning experiences. Consequently, students would have developed preferred approaches to acquiring and processing information or learning style preferences. Understanding first-year students' learning style preferences is important to success in learning. However, little i...

In this paper we build on research reported in the areas of Adaptive Educational Hypermedia and learning styles in order to deal with critical issues influencing the design of adaptation based on the learning style information. In more detail we concentrate on: (i) the different learning style categorizations that have been or could be used for modelling learners’ learning style in the context ...