Share Paper: Strategies for addressing personality type and learning style inhibitors to e-learning

  1. Louise Terry, London South Bank University, United Kingdom
  2. Carol Leppa, University of Washington, Bothell, United States
Thursday, October 27 11:55 AM-12:15 PM Junior Ballroom C

Abstract: This Best Practices session shares the issues, solutions and learning strategies identified from a research project exploring and comparing the impact of personality types and learning styles on attitudes towards e-learning in nurses studying ethics in a British university and an American university. The initial findings of this study which revealed a number of intrinsic inhibitors and motivators related to personality type and learning style were presented in a brief paper at E-Learn 2004. These have now been linked to the different tiers of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs as well Bloom’s learning taxonomy enabling the identification of a number of ...