Posts Tagged ‘Learning Style’
July 24 - Online Design: Reaching Students Eight Different Ways
By: Rob Kelly in Online Education
The online learning environment offers great potential for individualized learning. One way to achieve this is through adaptive hypermedia—using learner use patterns to adapt course presentation, navigation, and content to suit individual students’ needs and preferences.
August 17 - Active Online Learning Prepares Students for the Workplace, Reflects Changing Learning Styles Preferences
By: Rob Kelly in Articles, Learning Styles
Changing workplace demands and student learning style preferences require that instructors rethink their courses. No longer can students passively absorb knowledge. They must become active learners — interacting with peers and designing and implementing the learning, says Jane Legacy, MBA/MBE chair at Southern New Hampshire University’s School of Business. Legacy uses active learning techniques such
August 10 - Teaching to the Learning Styles Across Generations
By: Rob Kelly in Articles, Learning Styles
Instructors need to take steps to make the online classroom a comfortable and supportive learning environment regardless of students’ online learning experience or learning style preferences-a particularly important consideration when teaching students from multiple generations. Deborah Silverman, assistant professor of human nutrition and dietetics at Eastern Michigan University, teaches online and hybrid courses and has
August 5 - Learning Styles are Important to Teaching Critical Thinking
By: Rob Kelly in Articles, Learning Styles
Online courses offer several advantages over face-to-face courses when it comes to teaching critical thinking (analysis, evaluation, and deduction), according to according to Linda Armstrong, science professor at Sullivan County Community College in New York. The challenge is to engage students by addressing various learning styles and to find ways to build in critical thinking
August 2 - Is There a Connection Between Learning Styles and Preferences?
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Articles, Learning Styles
Start with a list of 12 familiar ways to learn course content: reading texts or other printed material; writing term papers, participating in group activities in class, doing major team projects, doing cases, taking multiple choice exams, giving presentations to the class, learning about different theories, doing practical exercises, solving problems, doing library research, or
August 1 - An Update on Learning Styles/Cognitive Styles Research
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Articles, Learning Styles
Research on learning styles now spans four decades. The amount of work ebbs and flows with more flowing recently. Interestingly, work on learning styles continues to occur across a wide spectrum of disciplines, including many quite removed from psychology, the disciplinary home of many of the central concepts and theories that ground notions of learning
