ELearning with the Internet An Empirical Study |
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| Author:
| Srivastava, Mukesh |
| ISBN: | 978-0-558-87164-2 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2010 |
| Publisher: | Pearson Learning Solutions
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $84.40 |
Book Description:
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eLearning with the Internet is a book for students learning how to conduct quantitative research who are also interested in learning styles and web-based learning. It presents a research study seeking to identify the relationship between the learning styles of e-learning website users and their preferences for features on those websites. Thus, the book serves two purposes: it contributes to the body of research on the rapidly developing field of web-based...
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eLearning with the Internet is a book for students learning how to conduct quantitative research who are also interested in learning styles and web-based learning. It presents a research study seeking to identify the relationship between the learning styles of e-learning website users and their preferences for features on those websites. Thus, the book serves two purposes: it contributes to the body of research on the rapidly developing field of web-based learning, and it presents an example of a systematic empirical study for advanced undergraduate and graduate research students in business, education, and other social science disciplines.
The book first discusses e-learning websites and their features, and then methods of identifying learning styles. Finally, a study is presented of a sample of employed adults who were also undergraduate or graduate students using e-learning websites; the finding of little to no correlation between their learning styles and their website feature preferences is then discussed in terms of its implications for e-learning website and online instruction designers.
A particular focus of the book is the choice of a quantitative research design, and the value of its emphasis on objective measurement and systematic testing of hypotheses. It provides a detailed description of the various elements of a research study, and includes an introduction to the research topics, questions, and justification, along with details about data collection, methodology, data analysis, results, and discussion.