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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Learning Styles as Fortune Telling

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, May 21, 2007 Learning Styles as Fortune Telling My research into understanding the role of learning styles in e-Learning continues. Reliability of learning styles test is generally pretty low.

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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

The usual rationale given for why eLearning needs both text and audio is that it accommodates multiple learning styles. These are serious questions that deserve serious consideration, but unfortunately they don’t always get it. Because that’s what clients have come to expect, and because it looks professional.

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Learning Styles: What Is All the Fuss About?

OpenSesame

I’ve recently been reading quite a few articles, tweets and blog posts about whether learning styles exist. If believing in the presence of diverse learning styles makes you a better designer and learning facilitator–great! What is a “learning style”? “, VARK Learn.

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Book Review: Millennials, Goldfish & Other Training Misconceptions

Experiencing eLearning

Learning styles are a good example. Providing different lessons tailored to visual and auditory learners (and separating learners so they get the lesson that matches their style) is time consuming and doesn’t improve results. We can’t even reliably measure learning styles.

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Interaction Preferences

Upside Learning

Recommend all learning designers read this post. What she is pointing to is quite simply that just like there are possibly learning style preferences, there are also interaction style preferences. That is a very accurate observation that aligns with my experience with groups of learners.

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Why I am prioritizing eLearning Accessibility?

Philip's Learning

Don’t use Flash in Online Learning Materials While Flash was once a popular format for online learning materials, it is now outdated and not universally accessible. Many modern devices, including mobile phones and tablets, do not support Flash.

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5 Ways to Improve Medical Continuing Education Courses

EthosCE

Know Your Learners’ Needs through Their Learning Styles. Different people have different learning styles, and your learners are no exception. 5% all three styles. You can add videos to YouTube, upload your own, or use Flash learning content to a full-featured LMS like EthosCE. 26% auditory.