Addressing learning style criticism: The unified learning style model revisited

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

Volumn 5686 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 332-342

  Popescu, Elvira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE WEB; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; LEARNING PROCESS; LEARNING STYLE; TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING; TRADITIONAL LEARNING;

EDUCATION;

EID: 70349322974     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03426-8_40     Document Type: Conference Paper

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