Using learning styles to enhance an e-learning system
Résumé
Nowadays there are new educational scenarios emerging along with technological breakthroughs in Information Technologies (IT), which allow us to modify the traditional teaching methods. Due to this situation, we ought to think about satisfying the growing educational needs using new didactic resources, new tools which will make teaching-learning environments more flexible, adding electronic media provided by communication networks and by informatics. Regarding learning, we find that not everyone learns the same way. Each person has a particular set of learning abilities, thus we can identify the preferences that constitute his or her learning style. Knowing our learning styles helps us both, teachers and researchers. Better teaching-learning strategies can be elaborated to assimilate in an effective and more efficient way new information and knowledge. In the following research, the challenge is to use the vast resources offered by informatics to create a suitable environment for the development of individuals with different skills. For example, impelling intellectual growth and expansion of abilities, based on the correct use of electronic media and the teaching-learning methods when learning a new subject. In this work, a computer program is provided for instructional aid, in which two educational aspects that have been only partially integrated yet are incorporated in an educational environment: computer science and educational psychology (although both of them have been previously used in education).