Evaluating students' learning styles to improve educational practices for a web development course

Abstract

The process of learning is a very imperative features of human life and the learning styles of learners has been one of the essential acquired issues. In the aspect of learning, each learner has their learning styles which influences their way of acquiring, developing, comprehending and perceiving information. Analyzing the individual learning styles of learners brings improvement to the performance of their learning process and upsurge the learning progress of the learners. The aim of this research is to determine the learning styles of learners in a Nigerian higher Institution so as to advance instructional strategies for Entrepreneurship Education Courses (EED) to be carried out in years to come. This study was carried out in the 2017/2018 academic session. A total of 31 students in a web development course which is part of the entrepreneurship courses offered in the Entrepreneurship Centre of the institution took part in the study. According to the acquired statistics from this research, it was established that the learning style profiles of learner’s differs across the various skilled courses of the centre of the institution