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...

INTRODUCTION Identifying and employing students' learning styles could play an important role in selecting appropriate teaching methods in order to improve education. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the students' final exam scores and the learning style preferences of dental students at Babol University of Medical Sciences. METHODS This cross-sectional study wa...

This paper reports a study identifying the learning styles preference of undergraduate nursing students and examining its influence on educational outcomes. There are limited recent studies in the UK on the learning styles preference of undergraduate and its influence on educational outcomes. A purposive sample of 110 undergraduate nursing students completed a demographic questionnaire and the ...

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 CDSS (computerized decision support system) for medical diagnostics have been studied for long. This study was undertaken to investigate how different preferences of Learning Styles (LS) of psychiatrists might affect acceptance, use and perceived usefulness of a CDSS for diagnostics in psychiatry. METHODS 49 psychiatrists (specialists and non-specialists) from 3 different clinics v...

Human resource development practitioners and others do not appear to share a common underlying framework for, and understanding of, “learning style”. Argues that learning style is but one construct which, along with learning preferences and cognitive styles, may be included under the umbrella term “personal style”. Reviews each aspect of the suggested personal style framework and considers its ...