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Learning Styles Links
Learning
to Learn Learning to Learn is a 10 week course designed to raise learners'
awareness of the cognitive and metacognitive aspects of thinking and learning.
It is for learners, teachers, and researchers. It teaches the value of
self-awareness as a critical part of learning.
Summary
of Learning Style Models Indiana State University's Center for Teaching
and Learning put together a site that summarizes models of learning styles,
list articles on the topic (some on the web, some in print), and links
to inventories to identify a person's learning style. The learning style
models include instructional preference, social interaction, information
processing, and personality frameworks.
Let Me Learn
Entrance to a wide variety of explanatory materials, research publications,
inventories, and conference and training workshop announcements related
to the Let Me Learn learning styles framework. The learner centered framework
has been adapted to higher education, K-12, the workplace, and family interactions.
It extends into the Let me Learn Process, which are tools for learners
to develop strategies to learn most successfully.
Institute for
Learning Styles Research The Institute for Learning Styles Research
(ILSR) is a group of researchers, instructors and individuals interested
in the art and science of learning and teaching. The ILSR is a not-for-profit
organization "dedicated to fostering research and development of learning
and teaching". The particular area of interest is the matching of learning
styles knowledge with teaching strategies and techniques.
Index
of Learning Styles The Index of Learning Styles is an instrument used
to assess preferences on four dimensions (active/reflective, sensing/intuitive,
visual/verbal, and sequential/global) of a learning style model formulated
by Richard M. Felder and Linda K. Silverman. (The model also contains a
fifth dimension, inductive/deductive, that is not assessed by the ILS.)
The instrument is being developed by Barbara A. Soloman and Richard M.
Felder of North Carolina State University.
Telecommunications
for Remote Work and Learning A digital library of resources on topics
such as pedagogical concerns and technology issues. Good section on adult
learning styles, including Kolb's and Gardner's models.
Harvard
Project Zero Project Zero is a research group that has studied the
development of learning processes in children, adults and organizations.
Howard Gardner is one of the co-directors. There is a biographical sketch
of Gardner as well as a list of his publications.
Matters
of Style From Richard Felder, who says that "functioning effectively
in any professional capacity requires working well in all learning
style modes." This site provides an excellent background summary
of Richard Felder's scale in relation to Kolb, Myers-Briggs, etc.
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