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Towards an Adaptive Web Training Environment Based on Cognitive Style of Learning: An Empirical Approach

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Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH 2002)

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The paper presents an investigation about the learner’s cognitive profiles in the context of Tapejara Project1. In this investigation, we have assumed that the learner’s Cognitive Style of Learning (CSL) actually influences his/her cognitive behavior while performing a long distance Web course. The paper describes the empirical procedures used to generate the learners’ cognitive profiles and his/her associated learning behavior that must be considered in the adaptive Web training environment. The training target population refers to the Telecommunications Company’s employees. The learner’s CSL assessment was obtained from the statistical analysis of the Ross Test data [14]. The CSL learning behavior was obtained from the statistical analysis of the navigational log data in an experimental training module designed for this purpose. The statistical results have shown five CSL groups, their style dimensions and the correlation between each CSL group and their navigational behavior in the Web training module.

The Tapejara Project — Intelligent Training System in the Internet – is a consortium of two Universities and a Telecom company supported by Brazilian Research Council, CNPq, under the ProTeM-CC framework.

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  1. PPGC/UFRGS, Instituto de Informática, Caixa Postal 15.064, CEP 91501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

    Maria A. M. Souto, Mariusa Warpechowski, Rosa M. Vicari & José Palazzo M. de Oliveira

  2. Faculdade de Psicologia, UNISINOS, Caixa Postal 275, CEP 93022-000, São Leopoldo, RS, Brasil

    Regina Verdin, Ricardo Wainer & Milton Madeira

  3. CRT Brasil Telecom, CEP 91430-001, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

    Karine Beschoren, Renata Zanella & Juarez Sagebin Correa

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  1. School of Information Sciences Department of Information Science and Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh, 135 North Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA

    Peter Brusilovsky

  2. Department of Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Einhoven, The Netherlands

    Paul De Bra

  3. Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros en Informatica Departamento de Lenguajes y Ciencias de la Computacion, Universidad de Málaga, Boulevard Luis Pasteur, 35, Málaga, Spain

    Ricardo Conejo

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Souto, M.A.M. et al. (2002). Towards an Adaptive Web Training Environment Based on Cognitive Style of Learning: An Empirical Approach. In: De Bra, P., Brusilovsky, P., Conejo, R. (eds) Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems. AH 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2347. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47952-X_35

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