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Using Learning Styles to Adapt Technology for Higher Education
Terry O'Connor
Indiana State University, February 21, 1997
Table of Contents
Having a Personal Point of View or why there are learning styles.
Learning Styles in Higher Education
Types of Learning Styles
Using Styles to Teach
puter Technologies
Having a Personal Point of View
Many of the mechanisms by which people learn are still unknown to us. How is it, for example, that a relatively brief talk can change the cognitive and/or emotional orientation of another enough to alter behavior? What happens that prevents this change? We don't quite know. There plex physiological, psychological, & social processes involved.
Learning styles research is drawn out of studies about the psychological, social, and physiological dimensions of the educational process. It has yet to be precisely (or singularly) defined. Still, the scholarly literature provides a range of working models that can help us deal with some of the mysterious terrain between teacher & learner.
To understand learning style models, begin with one of the fundamental insights of 20th Century psychology: people rely on personally constructed filters to orient their relationships toward the world. These filters are responsive to a variety of factors: age, experience, internal psychodynamics,