Learning Styles a Potential Predictor of Student Achievement in Remote and Virtual Laboratory Classes

Remote and virtual laboratories are becoming increasingly prevalent as ways of providing engineering students with the laboratory learning experience. Previous literature suggests that there may be differences in the nature of these learning experiences, leading to difference in the learning outcome...

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Main Authors: Lindsay, Euan, Good, M.
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Australasian Association for Engineering Education 2007
Online Access:http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/aaee2007/papers/paper_13.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36096
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description Remote and virtual laboratories are becoming increasingly prevalent as ways of providing engineering students with the laboratory learning experience. Previous literature suggests that there may be differences in the nature of these learning experiences, leading to difference in the learning outcomes achieved by students exposed to these different access modes.This paper investigates the impact of the students' preferred learning styles upon these changes in learning outcomes. This study shows that for some learning outcomes, the differences are not dependent solely upon access mode, but rather upon the interaction of access mode and learning style. Some styles are more susceptible to mode-based variations, whilst others show little change between the modes. This suggests that the students' preferred learning styles may be a potential diagnostic tool for determining which access mode will most enhance a given student's learning opportunities.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-360962017-01-30T13:53:37Z Learning Styles a Potential Predictor of Student Achievement in Remote and Virtual Laboratory Classes Lindsay, Euan Good, M. Remote and virtual laboratories are becoming increasingly prevalent as ways of providing engineering students with the laboratory learning experience. Previous literature suggests that there may be differences in the nature of these learning experiences, leading to difference in the learning outcomes achieved by students exposed to these different access modes.This paper investigates the impact of the students' preferred learning styles upon these changes in learning outcomes. This study shows that for some learning outcomes, the differences are not dependent solely upon access mode, but rather upon the interaction of access mode and learning style. Some styles are more susceptible to mode-based variations, whilst others show little change between the modes. This suggests that the students' preferred learning styles may be a potential diagnostic tool for determining which access mode will most enhance a given student's learning opportunities. 2007 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36096 http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/aaee2007/papers/paper_13.pdf Australasian Association for Engineering Education fulltext
spellingShingle Lindsay, Euan
Good, M.
Learning Styles a Potential Predictor of Student Achievement in Remote and Virtual Laboratory Classes
title Learning Styles a Potential Predictor of Student Achievement in Remote and Virtual Laboratory Classes
title_full Learning Styles a Potential Predictor of Student Achievement in Remote and Virtual Laboratory Classes
title_fullStr Learning Styles a Potential Predictor of Student Achievement in Remote and Virtual Laboratory Classes
title_full_unstemmed Learning Styles a Potential Predictor of Student Achievement in Remote and Virtual Laboratory Classes
title_short Learning Styles a Potential Predictor of Student Achievement in Remote and Virtual Laboratory Classes
title_sort learning styles a potential predictor of student achievement in remote and virtual laboratory classes
url http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/aaee2007/papers/paper_13.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36096