Teaching & Learning Guide: Learning Styles

How do You Define Personalized Learning?  by educause  licensed under  CC BY

Higher education leaders share how they define personalized learning.

WHAT'S YOUR LEARNING STYLE?   

• Visual  Auditory  Kinesthetic   Reading-Writing
• Musical,  Logical,   Natural,  Linguistic,  Social   
• Activist,  Reflector,  Theorist,  Pragmatist
• Cognitive,  Affective,  Physiological
• Avoidant, Participative, Competitive, Collaborative, Dependent, Independent

And there are more catagories of processing information.   A 2009 literature review by the Psychological Science in the Public  "found virtually no evidence" supporting the idea that "instruction is best provided in a format that matches the preference of the learner."  So, why are "learning style" approaches so popular?    Differences among people should be acknowledged.  Learning styles can be a springboard to inform teaching and various teaching approaches create more avenues to connect with students and facilitate learning.

So then,  What is the best way to learn?

• ASHA sphere  Harnessing Learning Styles  

The Bloom'sTaxonomy (1956)  / The Revised Taxonomy (2001)                                

• Knowledge                Remember
• Comprehension        Understand
• Application                Apply
• Analysis                    Analyze
• Synthesis                  Evaluate
• Evaluation                 Create