Posts Tagged ‘Learning Styles’
August 30 - Eight Lessons about Student Learning and What They Mean for You
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Curriculum Development
A new edition of a classic book on the curriculum suggests eight lessons from the learning literature with implications for course and curriculum planning. Any list like this tends to simplify a lot of complicated research and offer generalizations that apply most, but certainly not all, of the time. Despite these caveats, lists like this are valuable. They give busy faculty a sense of the landscape and offer principles that can guide decision making, in this case about courses and curricula.
November 10 - Concept Mapping: How Visual Connections Can Improve Learning
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
If you’ve never used concept mapping in your courses, you are overlooking one of the best ways to boost understanding and improve learning. During this seminar, you will learn concept mapping strategies that help students learn in dynamic, authentic and active ways.
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.
October 28 - Tools of Engagement: Technologies and Strategies for All Learning Styles
By: Mary Bart in Online Education
How do you motivate online learners?
It’s an age-old question that continues to stump online instructors as well as the managers of distance education programs trying to solve the attrition problem that continues to drag down this otherwise thriving segment of higher education.
September 23 - Using Screencasting to Engage and Build Community with Online Learners
By: Jacqueline Mangieri, PhD. in Online Education
In the online classroom, faculty work hard to engage their distance learners and build a strong sense of academic community in the electronic setting. Screencasting can be an effective and easy way to do this. Screencasting allows you to take a digital video of what you are doing on your computer desktop, and most screencasting tools allow you to narrate your video while recording. The possible uses for screencasting are endless; these include providing course orientations, delivering instructional lectures, providing feedback, and encouraging student sharing.
August 6 - Online Course Design Should Consider Learner Characteristics
By: Christopher Hill in Distance Learning Administration
In the early days of online learning, text was the primary medium of instruction. Now options abound, but finding the appropriate tools and using them effectively is another matter.
July 27 - Introverted Students in the Classroom: How to Bring Out Their Best
By: Tami Isaacs, PhD. in Teaching and Learning
To promote learning, we encourage our students to be actively involved in class discussions by asking and answering questions. Even if we do not include class participation in our grades, how a student behaves in class does influence our perception of the student’s abilities. These opinions may become important if the student’s grade in class
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.
December 30 - Four Distance Education Research Topics to Avoid
By: Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti in Distance Learning Administration, Online Education
Existing distance learning research falls into several main areas. Some lend themselves to future research to expand the knowledge base, but others do not need to be revisited. Here are the distance education research topics to avoid:
November 5 - Five Things College Professors Can Learn from K-12 Educators
By: Sara E. Quay in Faculty Development, Instructional Design, Teaching and Learning
Unlike their college-level counterparts, those who teach at the K-12 level spend a significant portion of their education studying the “how” of teaching. What they learn can be invaluable to college professors who enter classrooms with vast content knowledge but little (or no) background in teaching and learning. As those who teach these teachers, we’d like to showcase five teaching strategies college professors can learn from those who teach younger students. [...]
