Hi Gordon,

Each student has their own optimal way of learning. That could be called their learning style.

The difficulty for educators is identifying and accommodating that learning style.

The learning style theories like those of Honey & Mumford and Kolb provide ready-reckoners, not absolutes.

Even though these established models to not account for all the variance of how individuals learners learn, the principle of adapting learning environments to accommodate different styles of learning should be see as a worthwhile aim.

This was my 2004 MSc in E-Learning thesis where I first attempted to create an e-learning system to accommodate differences in learning of which learning styles were just one part:
Best Regards,

Jonathan Bishop

On 4 January 2016 at 23:19, Gordon Asher <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Puncturing the myth of those ubiquitous Learning Styles:
 
The concept of different “learning styles” is one of the greatest neuroscience myths
 
“Perhaps the most popular and influential myth is that a student learns most effectively when they are taught in their preferred learning style,”
...........
“Learning Styles do not work, yet the current research literature is full of papers which advocate their use. This undermines education as a research field and likely has a negative impact on students,”
http://qz.com/585143/the-concept-of-different-learning-styles-is-one-of-the-greatest-neuroscience-myths/

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