Types of Learning Styles: The Value in Holistic Strategies Traditionally, learning styles were broken into four main groups: visual, aural/auditory, read/write and kinesthetic. But some are taking a ...

If you’ve ever sat through a teaching seminar, you’ve probably heard a lecture about “learning styles.” Perhaps you were told that some students are visual learners, some are auditory ...

Many students confuse a learning preference with inherent trait when really most learners benefit when new information is presented in multiple ways.

Teaching 'visual' learners using visual methods doesn't make any difference to how well they learn. There is a fairly simple explanation for why this might be.

For many years educators were under the false notion that there were learning styles, and recent research shows that they don't exist.

Most previous investigations on learning styles focused on classroom learning, and assessed whether instructional style impacted outcomes for different types of learners.

A basic principle of education is that everyone learns at a different pace and has a different learning style. Visual learners learn best through diagrams, pictures, and reading text. Auditory ...

The responses indicate a preference for one of three primary learning styles: auditory (hearing), visual (seeing) and tactile (touching).

But exactly what are learning styles? They are, unfortunately, one of the great myths in learning theory. Three principles underly the concept of a learning style.