E-learning and individual learning styles

The overview study directs the attention to the fact that previous research in psychology of learning was predominantly interested in that how the individual learns spontaneously. Since the moment in which the teaching machines, later computers and computer networks entered the human learning the new question emerged: how to control the human learning, whatever to take into account, in order the learning runs optimally for the given individual. In the introduction of the study, the basic concepts are explained: learning, learning styles, and e-leaming. The second part of the study deals with the self-regulation learning, as well as the relation of outer control and self-regulation in learning. The results of those studies in e-learning from years 1998-2002 which tried to respect the different learning styles of students are presented here. The overview of those learning styles and those methods assessing learning styles that are being in-built into systems of e-learning in last years is presented. The final part of the study deals with the question how to connect effectively the knowledge from three areas: learning styles, self-regulation learning, and e-learning.