Posts Tagged ‘learning styles research’
September 22 - How Much Multimedia Should You Add to PowerPoint Slides When Teaching Online?
By: Debra Ferdinand, PhD in Learning Styles
PowerPoint is versatile in allowing us to add multimedia (graphics, sound, audio, video, text, animation, etc.) to our presentations for keeping online students’ rapt attention. But how much multimedia should you add? In answering this question, I find that taking into consideration students’ learning styles and cultural/international backgrounds can help to lessen the risk of using too much or too little multimedia in your online PPTs.
May 11 - Do Learning Styles Matter?
By: Mary Bart in Learning Styles
There’s been a lot written about learning styles. More than 650 books published in the United States and Canada alone. Do a Google search on “learning styles” and you get over 2,000,000 results. Most people know if they’re a visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learner, and instructors often try to design their courses to accommodate the different learning styles so as to ensure that each student’s strongest modality is represented in some fashion.
March 31 - Understanding Learning Styles Research and Instruments
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Learning Styles
Research on learning styles now spans four decades and occurs 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 style.
