Thinking style refers to the way a person’s natural predisposition in processing information embodying the qualities of thinking processes as well as types of thinking. Understanding of a person’s thinking style is important in all areas of social dealings. Models of thinking styles are varied, some of which are concerned with thinker’s personality traits, and others were interested in answering the question of how a thinker receives, processes, and align experiences, whereas others were focused on the sensory perceptual medium most preferable to a thinker when receiving, processing and aligning experiences. These models are: Carl Jung, Kolb, Dunn and Dunn thinking style model, Myers Briggs type indicator (MBTI) model, McCarthy, Honey and Mumford, Felder Silverman, Sternberg model, and Herrmann model.
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Development of Adaptive Social Network Based on Learners' Thinking and Learning Styles
Mahnane Lamia (LRS Laboratory, University of Badji Mokhtar, Algeria) and Hafidi Mohamed (LRS Laboratory, University Badji Mokhtar, Algeria)
Copyright: © 2018
|Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5384-7.ch005
Abstract
Adaptive social network sites (ASNS) are an innovative approach to a web learning experience delivery. They try to solve the main shortcomings of classical social networks—“one-size-fits-all” approach and “lost-in-hyperspace” phenomena—by adapting the learning content and its presentation to needs, goals, thinking styles, and learning styles of every individual learner. This chapter outlines a new approach to automatically detect learners' thinking and learning styles, and takes into account that thinking and learning styles may change during the learning process in unexpected and unpredictable ways. The approach is based on the Felder learning styles model and Hermann thinking styles model.