This document discusses research into student learning characteristics and how they relate to choices students make between digital and face-to-face learning environments. It examines factors like learning styles, goal orientations, and academic motivations. The research looks specifically at a university that offers a blended learning program combining problem-based learning sessions with an adaptive online tutorial. Data comes from surveys of 800-1000 business and economics students each term. The surveys assess students' learning characteristics, styles, and theories as well as their use of and preferences between the digital and in-person components over time.