Web Based Teaching - Do Learning Styles Matter?
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چکیده
This paper describes how an area of learning theory, specifically learning styles, is used to evaluate the learning outcomes of a web based course The Kolb (1985) Learning Style Inventory was administered to a group of 70 accounting students who had no prior experience with web based learning. Results are tentative, however it appears that there are learning style differences with respect to preference for asynchronous web based courses and there are improvements in overall student grades for some learning styles when using such courses. If replicated this study has an implication for university educators and their corporate counterparts due to the range of different dominant student learning style preferences across faculties.
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