Towards adaptive open learning environments: Evaluating the precision of identifying learning styles by tracking learners’ behaviours

Education and Information Technologies

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 807-825

  Fasihuddin, Heba ^a   Skinner, Geoff ^a   Athauda, Rukshan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive learning; Felder and Silverman model; Learning styles identification; MOOCs; Open learning; Web based learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027963070     PISSN: 13602357     EISSN: 15737608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10639-015-9458-5     Document Type: Article

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