by Barba Aldis PATTON and Teresa LESAGE, TOJDE
Students participating in web-based courses have different cognitive learning styles and individual differences. Although one or more learning and thinking styles may be suited for electronically delivered content, others may actually hinder learning in an electronic environment. Some students in web-based courses may have characteristic primary personality preferences that are better suited for the electronic learning environment, thus requiring no learning style adaptations and those students who do not have a natural tendency to learn in the electronic learning environment will be at a disadvantage. (Authors 2008) With this is mind it is upmost important that instructors be apprized of needs and desires of their students, both online and face to face. The online instructor begins with several distinct disadvantages however. Online instructors do not have the benefit of body language and voice tones, opportunities for spur of the moment communications, etc. With this in mind it is more important and ever that in order to be an effective and successful instructor, one must be aware of his/her students.
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