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Derginin Adı:
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The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
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Cilt:
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2014/15
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Sayı:
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4
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Makale Başlık:
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LEARNING STYLES AND SATISFACTION IN DISTANCE EDUCATION
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Makale Eklenme Tarihi:
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1.04.2015
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Okunma Sayısı:
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2
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Makale Özeti:
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Although complex, controversial, and contradicting, learning styles is highly
influential. Distance education (DE) has experienced tremendous growth in the last
few decades. The popularity of learning styles and DE necessitates research. This
correlational research study was conducted to determine if there is any evidence to
incorporate learning styles in DE.
The following is the research question for this study. Are students’ learning styles
based on the visual, auditory, tactile model correlated to satisfaction of course
format in an online undergraduate course? The participants of this study were
students enrolled in three sections of the Contemporary Worldviews course at a
private higher education institution (HEI). Learning styles were determined by a
variant of the visual, auditory, read/write, and kinesthetic (VARK) framework.
Satisfaction of course format was determined from one composite question with
responses based on a Likert scale. The response rate was 53.5%. Statistical
analysis determined that learning styles was not correlated to satisfaction of course
format in this current study. There are implications from this study that curriculum
can be designed for a single course that leaves students highly satisfied. Educators
should saturate DE courses with as much variance as feasible given technology and
cost limitations to account for possible learning style differences.
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