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Learning styles: Worth our time?

Making Change

If you had time to evaluate the research on learning styles, what would you conclude? cation of students’ learning styles has practical utility, it remains to be demonstrated.&#. &#. That quote is from Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence , an examination of learning style research.

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Learning styles: Worth our time?

Making Change

If you had time to evaluate the research on learning styles, what would you conclude? cation of students’ learning styles has practical utility, it remains to be demonstrated.&#. &#. That quote is from Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence , an examination of learning style research.

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The Myth of Learning Styles

CourseArc

This is a great article by Jenny Anderson about the pervasive learning styles myth. You may think you learn better in a certain way. It is important to use conclusive research to improve instruction. You actually don’t.

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Understanding Learning Styles Research

Experiencing eLearning

Too many people have been talking about learning styles research lately for me to try to cite them all here. Many have commented on the Learning Styles Don’t Exist video, for example. Should we be using learning styles? Using any learning style model makes people too eager to label each other.

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Situated Learning Styles

Clark Quinn

I’ve been thrust back into learning styles, and saw an interesting relationship that bears repeating. A report from the UK surveyed 13 major and representative learning style instruments and found all with some psychometric questions.

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Higher-education Myths

Clark Quinn

A colleague regularly chides his alma mater for continuing to believe in learning styles. While learners do differ, there’s no evidence we should adapt learning to learning styles, let alone can we reliably identify them. This is only part of the broader problem. This, too, is a myth!

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Learning Styles, ha, ha, ha, ha

Jay Cross

This marvelously tongue-in-cheek report looks at 800 studies of learning styles and concludes that there are better uses for educational funding. I wrote this post in Thursday, December 08, 2005, but I’m reposting it here because some people still have not got the message. This is an exception. Just Jay'