Enhancing e-learning environments with users' cognitive factors: The case of EKPAIDEION

Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on e-Learning, ECEL 2008

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 577-589

  Tsianos, Nikos ^a   Germanakos, Panagiotis ^a,b   Lekkas, Zacharias ^a   Mourlas, Constantinos ^a   Belk, Mario ^b   Christodoulou, Eleni ^b   Spanoudis, George ^b   Samaras, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Cognitive styles; E learning; User profile; Web personalization; Working memory

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ADAPTATION; COGNITIVE STYLES; USER PROFILE; WEB PERSONALIZATION; WORKING MEMORY;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 84896279231     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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