Adaptive program animations: A proposal based on learning styles

The educational effectiveness of animations is still an open research line. Currently, there exist many works concluding educational benefits of animations. But there is no a clear idea about the educational impact of the different uses of animations. In fact, last results show that constructivists uses -e.g. animation construction by students- improve learning, but other less active uses as animation viewing improve learning as well. Some research lines keep open. In this paper we focus on the use of adaptive systems with program animations. The user model is based on two dimensions of the the Felder-Silverman learning styles theory: sequential-global and visual-verbal. Firstly we deal with the individual adaptations of both dimensions and secondly we study their combination.