Estilos de aprender e ensino a distância: perfil de estudantes

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

Learning styles of students enrolled in online graduate courses is seldom researched. Thesefore, the purpose of this research was to analyze students perceptions of online courses and their learning styles. Others objectives were: to describe students profiles, according to sex, age and learning styles in the modality of distance learning. The sample was composed of 104 students (37 males and 67 females), ages raking from 19 to 56 years old, living in Saõ Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul. A scale of learning styles was elaborated with the following styles: environmental, sociologic, physiologic and psychological. This scale has 67 items, Likert type, and five open questions about students satisfaction in that learning form modality. The validety of this scale was obtained from four judges. The statistics analyzes used were: Univariate Analyzes of Variance and the Pearson Correlation. Students profile was composed by type of educational a course, course level, area of knowledge, age group, municipality where was located the presently course, sex and social economic condition. Significant effect were noticed only to the emotional style and age groups. Concluding learning styles can change according human development stage and, that online learning strategies should consider this opecity in the definition of teaching to be used.

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e-learning estilos cognitivos universidade webeducation ensino online online learning cognitive styles aprendizagem computer ensino mediado por computador psicologia

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