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Lorenzo, Gonzalo; Pomares, Jorge; Lledo, Asuncion – Computers & Education, 2013
This paper presents the use of immersive virtual reality systems in the educational intervention with Asperger students. The starting points of this study are features of these students' cognitive style that requires an explicit teaching style supported by visual aids and highly structured environments. The proposed immersive virtual reality…
Descriptors: Intervention, Learning Strategies, Cognitive Style, Asperger Syndrome
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Latham, Annabel; Crockett, Keeley; McLean, David; Edmonds, Bruce – Computers & Education, 2012
This paper proposes a generic methodology and architecture for developing a novel conversational intelligent tutoring system (CITS) called Oscar that leads a tutoring conversation and dynamically predicts and adapts to a student's learning style. Oscar aims to mimic a human tutor by implicitly modelling the learning style during tutoring, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Teaching Methods, Cognitive Measurement, Prediction
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Ozpolat, Ebru; Akar, Gozde B. – Computers & Education, 2009
A desirable characteristic for an e-learning system is to provide the learner the most appropriate information based on his requirements and preferences. This can be achieved by capturing and utilizing the learner model. Learner models can be extracted based on personality factors like learning styles, behavioral factors like user's browsing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Classification, Measures (Individuals), Measurement Techniques
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Blake, M. Brian; Butcher-Green, Jerome D. – Computers & Education, 2009
Training individuals from diverse backgrounds and in changing environments requires customized training approaches that align with the individual learning styles and ever-evolving organizational needs. Scaffolding is a well-established instructional approach that facilitates learning by incrementally removing training aids as the learner…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Adult Learning, Simulated Environment, Trainees
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Fiorina, Lorenzo; Antonietti, Alessandro; Colombo, Barbara; Bartolomeo, Annella – Computers & Education, 2007
There is a common assumption that hypermedia navigation is influenced by a learner's style of thinking, so people who are inclined to apply sequential and analytical strategies (left-thinkers) are thought to browse hypermedia in a linear way, whereas those who prefer holistic and intuitive strategies (right-thinkers) tend towards non-linear paths.…
Descriptors: Hypermedia, Cognitive Style, Prompting, Cues