Sunday, June 28, 2009

Learning Styles

I consider myself fortunate that I am able to learn from the written word, and might go so far as to say I learn that way best, except that I also learn well by class lectures. I do *not* like to work in groups in artificial situations, such as group projects for classes! In real-life, working in groups is fine with me, though I prefer my responsibilities to be clearly outlined.

What confuses me about the way learning styles are most often defined is that to me, learning by reading is a visual style -- it is my eyes doing the work, not my ears, not my hands, and not someone's mouth. I think Felder & Solomon rather than to identify "learners" actually identified elements of learning. How people learn is a fascinating subject to me; Psychology of Learning was one of my favorite courses as an undergraduate.

The variety of presentations in this course keeps the material interesting, and provides materials at different levels of interest/ability to the students. If one wants to pursue more in-depth look at the topic, the source is readily available.
I probably use the tutorial videos least -- to this point -- as said, I prefer reading text.

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