Evaluating the impact of adaptation to learning styles in a web-based educational system

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5686 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 343-352

  Popescu, Elvira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

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Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES; EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; LEARNING PROCESS; LEARNING STYLE; POSITIVE EFFECTS; RESEARCH ISSUES; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS; WEB-BASED EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS;

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EID: 70349305681     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03426-8_41     Document Type: Conference Paper

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