Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Issues of Style: What You Need to Know About Learning Styles


By Helene Geiger


How do you learn best? Each of us has a preferred learning style – the style in which we can learn most efficiently. That style is often defined using these three dimensions:
Active or Reflective? Active learners attain understanding by doing or applying information. Reflective learners like to think things through before doing.
Sensing or Intuitive? Sensing learners like facts, are rule-oriented, and feel comfortable with repetition and routine. Intuitive learners are more interested in the relationships between facts, resent repetition, and like to innovate.
Visual or Verbal? Visual learners are more likely to retain what they see. Verbal learners remember words – spoken or written.

Do all of these descriptions sound a little bit like you? Most adult learning styles fall somewhere in the middle on all three dimensions. If you would like to check your own style, here is a good site: http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html.




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