The effect of academic discipline and gender difference on Taiwanese college students' learning styles and strategies in web-based learning environments

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 265-272

  Ku, David Tawei ^a   Chang, Chiung Sui ^a  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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