Effect of Learning Styles on Students´ Motivation and Learning Achievement in Digital Game-based Learning

Learning styles have been recognized as an important human factor that might affects students´ learning performance. In this paper, we aim to investigate whether learning styles affect students´ motivations in learning with educational computer games. Two versions of an educational game have been developed based on the sequential/global dimension of the learning style proposed by Felder and Silverman. The experimental results show that the learning motivation of the students who learn with the learning style-fit version is significantly higher than that of those learn with non-fir version, implying that proper design of educational computer game based on learning styles is helpful to students in promoting their motivation and learning achievement.