Real users, real results: Examining the limitations of learning styles within AEH

Hypertext 2007: Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, HT'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 57-66

  Brown, Elizabeth ^a   Fisher, Tony ^b   Brailsford, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive educational hypermedia; DEUS; Learning styles; Real users; User modelling; User trials

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE EDUCATIONAL HYPERMEDIA; LEARNING STYLES; USER MODELING; USER TRIALS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; USER INTERFACES;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 36949003398     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1286240.1286261     Document Type: Conference Paper

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