Learning Styles

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Southworth et. al., Blackboard for Dummies, Chapter 11 - The Parts of Ten. What are the Learning Styles of your Learners. pp 274 - 276

Recommendation: google [learning style inventory]

References: Howard Gardner, Multiple Intelligences

Visual

Materials: Incorporate images, graphs, diagrams, and video into your course. You can incorporate these strategies into your Blackboard course by using the Text Editor tools in any of the text areas you use to add content.

Communications: Replace words with symbols and diagrams [See also Concept Maps] The Virtual Classroom lets you use a whiteboard, which includes tools such as shapes, colors, diagrams, drawings, and arrows useful in creating flow charts. The Discussion Boards can be a useful environment for visual learns if the forum administrator allows file attachments and students can then represent their thoughts visually in attached files.

Assessments: Develop knowledge maps (visual representation of knowledge).

Aural

Materials: Use audio recordings of course content and lecture notes, for example, in your course. Use the Text Editor for this task throughout your Blackboard course.

Communication: Add audio as part of your class discussions. Bu using the discussion boards, you can attach audio files to the discussions and let learners attach their own file in response to discussion threads.

Assessment: Incorporate audio files within assessments. In blackboard, you can set up tests that allow file attachments as part of the questions and the answers.

Read/Write

Material: Incorporate electronic readings within Blackboard Building Blocks, such as Linkmaster, allowing you to incorporate links to electronic databases that are part of your institution's library.

Communication: Include written discussion in class readings. You can establish peer review discussion boards to engage read/write learners.

Assessment: Incorporate writing assignments that entail several drafts or revisions. You can set up graded or non graded assignments by using the assignment tool in Blackboard or testz that incorporate short essay questions are are therefore geared more toward read/write learners.

Kinesthetic (Tactile)

Material: Use simulations and learning objects in your Blackboard course. You can include external links (Web sites) or choose to include a file within the Blackboard course itself, such as interactive flash animations that require students to perform specific actions and interact with the learning object.

Communication: Incorporate learner's own projects or web site development, for example, for peer review. You can use the discussion boards as a means of encouraging learners to showcase their own projects, such as photo essays or web sites.

Assessment: Incorporate authentic assessments in which learners are expected to perform real-world tasks that can be structured by learners themselves. You can set up a test in Blackkboard to let learners develope their own rubric (see Chapter 13) to determine grading criteria, for example, within this envrironment. You can use many standard question types (multiple choice, multiple answer, true-false, ordering, matching, fill-in-the-blank, short essay, and others) to engage sudents in this self reflective exercise.

Comment. Nice, but a bit thin. The google search term is the best link :)

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