Personalized E-Learning: Relation Between Felder– Silverman Model and Academic Performance

Diana Zagulova; Viktorija Boltunova; Sabina Katalnikova; Natalya Prokofyeva; Kateryna Synytsya

doi:10.2478/acss-2019-0004

Abstract

The growing demands for the training of students and the need for continuous improvement of the quality of university education make it necessary to find and apply more effective educational technologies and practices based on the correlation of teaching with the student’s profile and his/her individual Learning Style. This article discusses the topic of relevance of personalized e-learning. It describes Learning Styles and looks at the Felder– Silverman model in more detail. The article contains the results of student surveys on the basis of which the interrelation between the Index of Learning Styles and academic performance is analysed. The relation between performance and learning styles according to the Felder-Silverman Learning Style Model is shown: in some specialties, students with sequential learning style have higher academic performance than students with global learning style, as well as students with mild learning style preferences on the Activist/Reflector dimension.

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Personalized E-Learning: Relation Between Felder– Silverman Model and Academic Performance

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