Style in education

Canadian-style medical education in China.

Learning Style, Culture and Delivery Mode in Online Distance Education

Adaptation to customer needs is a key component of competitiveness in any service industry. In online HE (higher education), which is increasingly worldwide, this adaptation must include consideration of learning styles. Most research shows that learning style has little impact on learning outcomes in online education. Nevertheless, students with different learning styles prefer different learn...

Quality and Satisfaction of Blended-style Education in Economic Courses

There is an assumption that ICT brings a new way of learning and teaching, so it should accompanied by new pedagogies and new approaches and strategies. The idea of blending different learning experiences has been in existence ever since humans started thinking about teaching. What has recently brought this term into the limelight is the infusion of web-based technologies into the learning and ...

The Implications of Cognitive Style to Adult Distance Education

The purpose of this chapter is to examine the implications of the cognitive-style dimension of field independence/dependence for adult learners in distance learning environments. Chinien and Boutin (1992–93) suggest a student’s repertoire of cognitive skills can serve to facilitate or debilitate a student’s performance in a learning task. Cognitive skills also determine if a student performs co...

Validation of learning style measures: implications for medical education practice.

BACKGROUND It is unclear which learners would most benefit from the more individualised, student-structured, interactive approaches characteristic of problem-based and computer-assisted learning. The validity of learning style measures is uncertain, and there is no unifying learning style construct identified to predict such learners. OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to validate learning st...