Overview of Learning Styles

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    What is a Learning Style?

    Disagreements With the Importance of Learning Styles

    Test – What is Your Learning Style?

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    Personal Wellness
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    What is a Learning Style?

    Research suggests that each person has a style of learning that best suits
    their nature. There are four major classifications of learning styles, including:

    • Visual – those who learn primarily by watching
    • Verbal – those who learn primarily by reading and writing
    • Aural – those who learn primarily by listening and speaking
    • Kinesthetic – those who learn primarily by engaging in an activity

    Educators and parents are encouraged to learn the style of their students and
    children and to adapt their educational activities to the nature of the learner.

    What Are
    Learning Styles?
    Learning Styles
    (Wikipedia)
    Your
    Guide to Understanding and Adapting To Different Learning Styles
    Assessing Your Learning Style
    Matters of Style
    Learning
    Styles: Threat or Opportunity?

    Adapting
    Your Management Approach for Different Learning Styles

    Disagreements With the Importance of
    Learning Styles

    More recently, there are people who strongly question the validity of learning
    styles. They point out that people may have preferences in how they learn, but
    that has little influence on whether they actually learn or not. Some point
    out that scientific research about learning styles has very little validity.

    The Learning
    Styles Controversy – Arguments For and Against
    Is the Learning
    Styles Myth Important?
    Are
    Learning Styles Real?
    Are
    Learning Styles Just a Fantasy
    ?

    What is Your Learning Style?

    What do you think? Are learning styles significant enough for you to modify
    how you design or select your learning activities? If so, then take this short
    online quiz to learn your own learning style.

    Learning
    Style

    Now that you have an impression of your style, what do you want to do with
    the way that you learn?

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    Key
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    Improving
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    Mindsets
    – How You See the World
    Online
    Learning
    Self-Reflection
    Test
    Preparation
    Taking
    Tests
    Types
    of Learning
    Using
    Study Guides

    Also, consider
    Personal
    Productivity

    Personal
    Wellness

    Learn More in the Library’s Blogs Related to Learning Styles

    In addition to the articles on this current page, see the following blogs which
    have posts related to Learning Styles. Scan down the blog’s page to see various
    posts. Also, see the section “Recent Blog Posts” in the sidebar of the blog or
    click on “next” near the bottom of a post in the blog.

    Library’s
    Career Management Blog

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