Mining learning preferences in web-based instruction: Holists vs. Serialists

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 266-277

  Clewley, Natalie ^a   Chen, Sherry Y ^a,b   Liu, Xiaohui ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Field Dependence; Field Independence; Holist; Learning preferences; Pask; Serialist

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863139278     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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