An Experimental Study of Learning Behaviour in an ELearning Environment

Abstract

To achieve an adaptive eLearning system, it is essential to monitor the learner behaviour dynamically to diagnose their learning style. Eye tracking can serve that purpose by investigating the eye gaze movement while engaging in the eLearning environment. In this study, an eye tracking experiment was developed to analyse the pattern of learner behaviour to obtain his learning style as a personalisation aspect in an eLearning system. The electroencephalography EEG Emotive Epoc device was used to disclose learners with more accurate data. In the experiment, we have developed a method to test the hypothesis whether the verbal and visual learning styles reflect actual preferences in an eLearning environment based on Felder and Silverman Learning Style Model. The outcome of this experiment can be used as the starting point for further exhaustive experiments. This paper presents the actual state of our experiment, conclusions, and plans for future development.