learning styles & academic theory (learning styles don't exist)

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Learning Styles and Academic Theory By Jacqui Bartram

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This is a lecture I gave on Learning Styles and other Academic Theory for our Business School Students. It contains videos which probably won't work on this format but I've included the links. Most of the 'content' is in the notes section on each slide - I spoke it. Students were given a Twitter #tag to use during the lecture to reply to the questions posed and these where displayed on a twitter wall. There were also links to Excel files containing questionnaires that the students were encouraged to try after the session.

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Learning Styles and Academic

TheoryBy Jacqui Bartram

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How much do you think

about HOW you learn?

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What are Learning Styles?

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The Theory: Everybody has a

preferred style of learning

Knowing and understanding your learning style can

help you learn more effectively

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There are TOO MANY learning styles models to

coverDunn and Dunn

(VAK)Gregorc

Riding

Apter

Jackson

Myers-Briggs

Allinson and Hayes

HerrmannHoney and Mumford

Kolb

EntwistleVermunt

GardnerWhetton and Cameron

KoganSchmeck

Hill

Harrison-Branson

Kagan

Conti and Kolody

Hermanussen et al

McKenney and Keen

Marton and Säljö

Grasha-Riechmann

Weinstein et al

Pask

Guilford

Marks

Torrence

Miller

Bartlett

Gordon

Broverman

Cooper

Richardson

Betts

SheehanMessick

Kogan

Kaufmann

HuntWitkin

Holzman and Klein Hudson

Felder and Silverman

Richardson

Epstein and MeierBiggsPettigrew

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Reading/writing

Visual

AK

uditory

inaesthetic

Tactile

VAK based learning

styles are about

sensory input and

types of memory

Excel

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Honey and Mumford’s Learning style is about approaches to learning

Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cf-1zx58CU

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Do YOU think Learning Styles

exist or not?

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Not all Learning Styles are so easily

killed offEntwistle’s Approaches to Study Skills Inventory (ASSIST)Vermunt’s Inventory of Learning Styles (ILS)

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Entwistle’s model focuses on level of engagement or

depth of processing

Apathetic

Deep Surface

Strategic

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Vermunt’s ILS looks at a student’s information

processing styleProcessing strategies

Regulation strategies

Mental models of learning

Learning orientatio

ns

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From this, Vermunt describes

4 types of learning styleUndirected

Reproduction directed

Application directed

Meaning directed

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What is YOUR motivation for

learning?

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Other Academic

Theory

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Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences influences many

learning styles models

Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf6lqfNTmaM

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Linguisti

c

InterpersonalIntrapersonal

Spatial-visualBodily-kinaesthetic

MusicalLogical-mathematical

Recap of the multiple intelligences:

Excel

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Other theorists took the idea of

Interpersonal and Intrapersonal

intelligence and called it

emotional intelligence

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Goleman’s modelSelf-awareness(recognise own

emotions and act accordingly)

Social awareness(empathy,

understanding of social networks)

Relationship management

(ability to influence others and manage

conflict)

Self-management(ability to inspire, influence others

and manage conflict)

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Constructivism is a learning theory which states that

people construct their own knowledge

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Reflection is the ability to look back and analyse your experiences and realise what lessons can be learned for the future

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Do you think that learning about learning

helps you become a BETTER learner?

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Metacognition

(thinking about thinking)

If you are thinking about any of this

academic theory then you are using