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Cultural influences on student learning.

Academic Exchange Quarterly

| September 22, 2003 | Robbins, Nancy; Craven, Annette | COPYRIGHT 2003 Rapid Intellect Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Abstract

Students and their preferred learning styles are diverse. The preferences may become even more diverse when considering students of different international cultures. The implications for practice that learning styles of a cultural diverse student population have on teaching styles are explored in this research.

Background

The redesigning of our course, Trends and Issues in Technology, for international and domestic Ph.D. students led us to explore teaching styles and how they may ultimately be affected by student learning styles. The approach to the study may appear backwards to some but it eventually rights itself.

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