Introduction Learning Styles are usually categorized as cognitive styles‚ personality types‚ or learning styles. Students preferentially take in and process information in different ways: by seeing and hearing‚ reflecting and acting‚ reasoning logically and intuitively‚ analyzing and visualizing‚ steadily and in fits and starts. Teaching methods also vary. Some instructors lecture‚ others demonstrate or lead students to self-discovery; some focus on principles and others on applications; some
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Martinez‚ [Title] Executive Summary This report is based on the online & distance learning mediums‚ VLE’s. It’s focused on three open source and proprietary VLE software platforms: Blackboard‚ Moodle and Fronter. All three are analyzed by presenting their functions‚ advantages and disadvantages. The report concludes with a comparison of them and their position in the market share showing how these learning environments have developed over time. Contents Executive Summary 2 Introduction
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in the teaching and learning process. The benefits that accrue to students in universities and other learning institutions using e-learning are well documented. Over the past years in majority of countries‚ academic institutions and other institutions of higher learning have been diversifying in delivery of instruction to learners through internet media. These internet media include Virtual Learning Environment system (VLEs)‚ online classrooms and asynchronous distance learning amongst other growing
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everyone has different learning styles. The way we absorb‚ analyze‚ and retain information is what makes each individual unique. What is successful for one individual may not be the most optimal way of learning for someone else. Mr. Howard Gardner‚ Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences‚ suggested that there are eight different intelligences governing which learning style would be the most productive-based upon our own personalities. The Pathways to Learning questionnaire‚ developed
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Teaching and learning styles Teaching styles (methods) There are many different styles or methods of teaching. Research I did showed at least 150 different styles from lecturing to brainstorming and vocabulary drills. I have identified the following styles as most often used: Demonstrations & Practicals/Experiments: When teachers show learners skills while they watch‚ followed by the learners practicing the skill they’ve learnt. Additionally learners may observe and record results of what they
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Diverse learning styles present both unique challenges and exciting opportunities to educators. By integrating various forms of the visual and performing arts with instruction‚ teachers can meet the needs of different learners as well as provide a richer learning environment. Some aspects of the visual and performing arts an instructor might choose to include are music‚ dance‚ drama‚ painting‚ and sculpting‚ to name a few. Looking at certain aspects of history‚ politics‚ and other content relevant
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My Learning Style After completing the Kolb Learning Style Inventory I learned that I am a converging learner. A converging learner is someone who learns by thinking and doing. Each learning style have five behavior levels which consist of an assertive personality‚ education in engineering or medicine‚ professional career in engineering‚ medicine‚ or computer science‚ current job in a technical field‚ and adaptive capabilities in decision skills. I work best from thinking and doing over reading
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Kolb learning styles A four-stage cyclical theory of learning‚ Kolb’s experiential learning theory is a holistic perspective that combines experience‚ perception‚ cognition‚ and behaviour. Kolb’s four-stage learning cycle shows how experience is translated through reflection into concepts‚ which in turn are used as guides for active experimentation and the choice of new experiences. The first stage‚ concrete experience (CE)‚ is where the learner actively experiences an activity such as a lab session
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Virtual Learning Environment Virtual Learning Environment is one of the many learning strategies or methods. Virtual Learning Environment or online learning is part of blended approach of leaning. The other methods include self-managed learning where a person learns independently with the help from tutors‚ peers and using course materials and a face to face learning method is a strategy where learning takes place in an actual classroom with the tutors. Online learning started four
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Know the difference between learning styles and learning modalities.[1] Learning styles: what do we know?[2] What are learning styles?[3] Learning styles are simply the way a child learns best.[4] Learning styles theory says that there are different learning modalities and that individuals have a preferred modality.[5] A consequence of this theory is that effective teaching should present a variety of teaching methods which cover all three learning modalities so that different students have equal
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