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study. In this way, experiments outcomes will be considered in modeling learners’ preferences and
behaviors in an educational simulation and modeling tool prepared before (Orooji et al., 2010).
Future work will deal with incorporating information about relationships between learners’ learning
styles and their other characteristics like field of study. In this way, students’ evaluation results will be
put together to detect special LS modelers which fit better to each category of students. In this way,
identified LS modelers will be used in an automatic selection of the most effective questionnaire due
to each leaner. Future work will also deal with analyzing the concept for providing adaptivity in more
detail based on the dominant LS distinguished for each user. Unified LS modeling system provides
some valuable guides for course instructors and system designers to provide some more effective
content adaptations. Another direction of future work will be constructing a hierarchical concept map,
a combination of different parts of LS modelers able to cover all styles, to be considered as a basis for
integration mechanism. It really needs to understand the correlation between different LSs.
Acknowledgments
We thank Ms Fatemeh Noorani for her unpublished comprehensive lecture.
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