This study aims to analyze university students’ learning strategies preferred in the knowledge creation process and academic achievement according to their learning styles in a cyber learning environment. The participants of this study were 196 university students who attended cyber lecture classes in C University in Korea, and the research instruments were Felder-Silverman’s learning styles in...

Lifelong learners who select learning activities to attain certain learning goals need to know which are suitable and in which sequence they should be performed. Learners need support in this way-finding process, and we argue that this could be provided by using Personalised Recommender Systems (PRSs). To enable personalisation, collaborative filtering could use information about learners and l...

E-learning system utilizing learners’ characteristics which is recognized through learning processes with Open Simulator for overcoming week points is proposed. Through dialogs with avatars in the Open Simulator, it is possible to understand learners’ week points. Using learners’ characteristics, most appropriate subjects and achievement tests are provided by the proposed e-learning system. Exp...

purpose: this study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of training courses for the librarians of the librarians association of iran, khorasan branch, implementing the kirkpatrick model. methodology: the method is based on the applied researchand the nature of the survey and analysis. the population consisted of 156 librarian members of the association who had participated in the training cours...

Learners usually meet cognitive overload and disorientation problems when using e-learning system. At present, most of the studies in e-learning either concentrate on the technological aspect or focus on adapting learner’s interests or browsing behaviors, while, learner’s skill level and learners’ success rate is usually neglected. In this paper, the authors propose an online course generation ...

Existing instruction websites record learners’ portfolios, they only collect the browsing time and homepage information, without directly provide teachers with more data for further analyzing learner behaviors. Consequently, this investigation uses the learners’ portfolio left in the e-learning environment, and adopts “data mining” techniques to establish for each cluster of learners the most a...

abstract the role of efl lecturers’ first language (l1) in the efl courses has been an ongoing debate. a monolingual approach to efl suggests that the use of the target language solely in foreign language (fl) classroom improves learning of the target language. accordingly, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the attitude of iranian lecturers and efl learners towards using l1 as...

  Abstract The present study aims at analyzing EFL learners’ attitudes towards motivating factors in learning vocab-ulary. A mixed-methods approach was used to conduct the study. In the qualitative analysis, Iranian EFL learners’ attitudes towards learning vocabulary were investigated through a semi-structured interview en-compassing 36 participants. Subsequently, a 56-item ‘motivation for v...