1. Learning Styles
Dr Sinead Eccles
LSS1003

2. Why learn about learning?
Your capacity to learn can be improved by: • being motivated • having a clear purpose • analysing how you do things • being willing to try new things • recognising what works best for you. If you take some time to think through how you as an individual learn effectively, you’ll find that: • studying will be more enjoyable • it will be easier to understand course material • you’ll tend to remember course themes, concepts or techniques, which will help when you come to write assignments or prepare for exams. Finding out about how you learn can help you to develop study techniques that suit your needs and the task at hand

3. Successful learning Activity 1
Write down, something you think you are good at
Write down a few words about how you became good at this

4. Successful learning Did you write? Practice Trial and error Repetition
Having a go
Experimenting
Most people “learn by doing"

5. Did you know? Students retain: 10% of what they read
20% of what they hear
30% of what they see
50% of what they see and hear
70% of what they say
90% of what they say and do
(Foot and Hook 1996, p. 180)

6. Learning: Behaviourists
Learning through stimulus, response & reward
Pavlov (1927)
Skinner (1965)
Conditioning
Input output

7. Learning: Cognitive Perception, memory & concept formation
Demonstrate understanding by applying knowledge to solving a problem
Kolb(1984) Experiential learning

8. Learning in College •Autonomy •Accountability •Time Management
•Interactive
•Asking, not just listening!

9. What are Learning Styles
DG-fHFE

10. VAKS learning styles
The theory of learning styles assumes that each individual has a specific way of learning, when used can improve performance

11. Visual: seeing and reading

12. Auditory: listening and speaking

13. Kinaesthetic: touching and doing

14. What is your learning style?
Visual: use of seen or observed things, including pictures, diagrams, demonstrations, displays, handouts, films, flip-chart
Auditory: involves the transfer of information through listening: to the spoken word, of self or others, of sounds and noises
Kinaesthetic: involves physical experience - touching, feeling, holding, doing, practical hands-on experiences

15. Your learning style Are you surprised by the result?
Does your style accurately reflect your own opinion
What are the learning styles of the class?

16. What now?
You can use your learning style to tailor your study and learning methods
You can describe your learning style in your portfolio

17. Further reading Gardiner, H. (1992) Multiple Intelligences.
online.com/research/default.asp
Honey, P & Mumford, A (2000) The learning styles helper guides.