Analysis of learners' navigational behaviour and their learning styles in an online course

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 116-131

  Graf, S ^a   Liu, T C ^b   Kinshuk, ^a  

^a ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Learning management systems; Learning styles; Navigational behaviour; Sequential analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954380774     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: 13652729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2009.00336.x     Document Type: Article

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