Teachers and instructional designers frequently incorporate collaborative learning approaches into their elearning environments. A key factor of collaborative learning that may affect learner outcomes is whether the collaborative groups are assigned project topics randomly or based on a shared interest in the topic. This is a particularly important question for adults, whose performance can dep...

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It is imperative to analyze learning styles based on learners’ cultural backgrounds when designing successful online learning courses. The present study investigated the learning styles preferences of learners who have diverse cultural backgrounds in an online language learning environment. For this purpose, the study employed the Felder and Silverman’s Learning Styles Model and examined sixty ...

This study examined whether processing ambiguous sentences containing relative clauses (RCs) following a complex determiner phrase (DP) by Persian-speaking learners of L2 English with different proficiency and working memory capacities (WMCs) is affected by semantic priming. The semantic relationship studied was one between the subject/verb of the main clause and one of the DPs in the complex D...

Learners are often getting uncertainty by the flow of information and have trouble in selecting the material to learn that satisfies their requirements and interests. It is the fact that the learners 'learning interest, and behaviour changes over the time and subject to subject. It is very important, thus, to know learner preferences and what problem he/she faces during the programme. In t...

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...

although investigating the factors that influence test scores is important, a majority of stakeholders show a paucity of attention towards individual learner differences due to having large classes of l2 learners. this study sought to explore the possible effect of working memory and cognitive style on l2 learners’ metaphorical test performance. the study was conducted in 2 phases. the first ph...

Learning styles are considered as an important factor in education, however, often students have to learn from material or in courses which do not support their learning styles. A challenge in the area of adaptivity is not only to provide learners with courses that fit the students’ learning styles but can also veer towards supporting students to learn in courses that does not match their learn...

Several researches in the field of education have shown that taking into account learning styles has drastically improved the quality of teaching / learning. The adaptation of the course into the profiles and preferences of learners requires the collection of more information on learners, learning styles and educational resources. To identify the learning style of each learner, the architecture...

In this paper we present an intelligent architecture, oriented goals, to create individualized learning paths. The adaptation of learning paths to learner profiles is an area of research growing. More research in this field has shown that taking into account the preferences and learning styles of learners improve the quality of the teaching/learning; thus, the collection of information characte...