Posts Tagged ‘Learning Styles’
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. [...]
September 24 - Choosing Appropriate Distance Learning Tools
By: Rob Kelly in Distance Learning Administration, Online Education
Faculty need to consider learning objectives, learning styles, accessibility, cost, and available technical support when designing distance learning courses, says Laurie Hillstock, manager of distance learning at Clemson University.
Hillstock works with faculty to develop satellite, CD-ROM, and Web-based courses using a design model that is roughly 80 percent asynchronous and 20 synchronous. Within this model, instructors can…
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
