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Learning Styles

Learning Styles. Competing ideas about learning. Range of theories Some theories derive from research into brain functioning. specific neural activity related to learning can be identified in different areas of the brain.

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Learning Styles

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  1. Learning Styles

  2. Competing ideas about learning • Range of theories • Some theories derive from research into brain functioning. • specific neural activity related to learning can be identified in different areas of the brain. • Other influential ideas derive from established psychological theories. • personality traits, intellectual abilities and fixed traits which are said to form learning styles.

  3. Different theorists make different claims for the degree of stability of styles. • Some argue around “flexibly stable” • previous learning experiences and other environmental factors create preferences, approaches or strategies rather than styles, • or that styles may vary from context to context or even from task to task.

  4. Others argue that it is not about individual traits but that it is more productive to look at the context-specific and situated nature of learning and the idea of learning biographies rather than styles or approaches.

  5. Many differing perpectives Learning styles change over time/with context Learning is behavioural process Learning is biological/physiological process Technology? Learner Teacher Facilitator Learning styles are static Learners need to adapt to/adopt a range of styles Teaching styles need to adapt and/or individualise

  6. Curry’s model revisited. Cognitive Personality Style Significant Stable/difficult to modify Seen as much more important for “deep learning” Information Processing style Instructional preferences More easily modified Less significant

  7. Continuum of learning theories About genetics and cognition Work with styles don’t try to change Dynamic interplay between self and experience. Not about style about range of personal factors Consequences for design/pedagogy?

  8. Learning styles and pedagogy in post-16 learning A systematic and critical review The Learning and Skills Research Centre, 2004

  9. Example theories

  10. Kolb Four stage model

  11. Multiple Intelligences Gardner

  12. V-A-K-T learning styles Think about when someone gets a gadget for Christmas that needs setting up

  13. Do any of these considerations impact on your choice of approach? • How? • How do you think e-learning may help to address some of the other issues raised?

  14. Assessment of learning? • What are the learning outcomes? • How will they be measured? • Who will measure them? • How will this be influenced by considerations around learning styles?

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