<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>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.</p></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.

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

Applied Computer Systems

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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...

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

Published Online: Jun 20, 2019

Page range: 25 - 31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/acss-2019-0004

Keywords
Academic performance, Felder–Silverman model, learning styles, personalized e-learning

© 2019 Diana Zagulova et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Public License.

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

Published Online: Jun 20, 2019

Page range: 25 - 31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/acss-2019-0004

KeywordsAcademic performance, Felder–Silverman model, learning styles, personalized e-learning

© 2019 Diana Zagulova et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Public License.

Keywords
Academic performance, Felder–Silverman model, learning styles, personalized e-learning