Practical Approaches To Using Learning Styles In Higher Education

Author : Rita Dunn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313002827
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practical Approaches to Using Learning Styles in Higher Education written by Rita Dunn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-04-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dunn and Griggs challenge the traditional instructional process of lecture/discussion in college classroom and describe the theory, practice, and research that support a wider variety of approaches to better accommodate the learning-style preferences of each student. Twenty-five practitioners from varied backgrounds and disciplines, representing 14 colleges and universities, outline alternative strategies they use with diverse students in their institutions of higher education. Some of these practitioners have been using learning-style for decades. Others have conducted research to test the various tenets of the Dunn and Dunn Learning- Style Model, and a few, only for the past five years, have begun providing instructional strategies that are congruent with their students' preferences. A road map is provided for college faculty to assist them in moving toward accommodating students' learning-style strengths by comparing the major theories of learning styles that range from uni- to multi-dimensional in scope. Strategies include: identifying and administering valid and reliable instruments for assessing college students' learning styles, interpreting assessment results so that each student becomes aware of his/her own strengths and is provided a computer-generated prescription for improving their study skills and successfully completing assignments, designing instruction to respond to both global and analytic students' processing styles, developing course content and materials to accommodate the learning-style preferences of college students, and evaluating the impact of learning-styles-based instruction.

Author : Makewa, Lazarus Ndiku
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799816648
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Innovation in Higher Education written by Makewa, Lazarus Ndiku and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-12-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education badly needs effective innovations that can help produce high-quality learning outcomes across the system. The primary focus of educational innovations should be on teaching and learning theory and practice, as well as on the learner, parent, community, society, and culture. Technology applications need a solid theoretical foundation based on purposeful, systemic research, and a sound pedagogy. Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Innovation in Higher Education is an essential scholarly publication that outlines the classification of innovations, discusses the hurdles to innovation, and offers ways to increase the scale and rate of innovation-based transformations in the education system. The publication argues that raising the quality and scale of innovations in education will positively affect education itself and benefit society. Highlighting topics such as academic integrity, e-learning, and learner engagement, this book is vital for higher education professionals, academicians, educators, librarians, course designers, researchers, and students.

Author : Carol Evans
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134921713
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Styles of Practice in Higher Education written by Carol Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights important discussions occurring within the styles field that have direct relevance for the development of effective twenty-first century learning environments. Styles research in this context is used as an umbrella term to encompass cognitive styles, learning styles, and approaches to learning, as well as student and teacher beliefs and conceptions of learning and teaching. Styles have the capacity to influence instruction in the ways that an educator chooses to design and deliver the curriculum. However, the potential of styles to inform teaching and learning, and vice-versa remains under-explored. Furthermore, the frequent misuse and misinterpretation of styles has led to over simplistic assumptions and practices including the labelling of learners as one style or another and the focus on matching mode of instruction to style of learner. A fundamental challenge, therefore, remains the dissemination of clear guidance on the effective ways of using styles research in practice; this is the core aim of the Education, Learning, Styles, Individual differences Network, whose members have contributed chapters to this book. The volume provides a major contribution to the knowledge base on enhancing the application of styles research to practice within both educational and workplace settings and is of considerable value to those involved in the design and delivery of effective learning environments within higher education. Relationships between styles variables and other individual learning differences are considered across a range of subject domains (medicine, science, teacher education) and cultural contexts. The key themes discussed include the potential of constructivist environments to effect change in learning behaviours; the notion of deep approaches to learning; relationships between approaches to learning and self-regulated learning; the varied learning and teaching responses of students/teachers to specific constructivist interventions including the identification of specific patterns of responses that are characteristic of highlighted groups; relationships between conceptions and approaches to learning and teaching This book was originally published as a special issue of Research Papers in Education.

Author : Rita Dunn
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Secondary Students Through Their Individual Learning Styles written by Rita Dunn and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 1993 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patricia N. Blakely
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781604562729
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adult Education written by Patricia N. Blakely and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adult education is the practice of teaching and educating adults. This often happens in the workplace, through 'extension' or 'continuing education' courses at secondary schools, at a college or university. Other learning places include folk high schools, community colleges, and lifelong learning centres. The practice is also often referred to as 'Training and Development'. It has also been referred to as andragogy (to distinguish it from pedagogy). A difference is made between vocational education, mostly undertaken in workplaces and frequently related to up-skilling, and non-formal adult education including learning skills or learning for personal development. Educating adults differs from educating children in several ways. One of the most important differences is that adults have accumulated knowledge and experience that can add or hinder the learning experience. This new book presents recent studies on this topic from several perspectives.

Author : Rita Dunn
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Students Through Their Individual Learning Styles written by Rita Dunn and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1978 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ruby Bostick Midkiff
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN 13 : 0398082170
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO USING LEARNING STYLES IN MATH INSTRUCTION written by Ruby Bostick Midkiff and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although much attention has been given to the use of learning styles in the general curriculum and in teaching students to read., the use of learning styles-based instruction in the mathematics classroom has received limited attention. Therefore, the purpose of this book is to address the improvement of mathematics instruction through the use of learning styles-based instruction. Its goals are to give the reader an understanding of learning styles-based instruction in mathematics, of effective use of manipulatives in teaching various concepts at all grade levels, of ways to develop spatial reasoning skills in students, of different activities which accommodate a variety of learning styles, and of authentic assessment in mathematics. The book presents the use of learning styles-based instruction as a powerful strategy which teachers can and should use with the result that teaching will be more effective, less remediation will be necessary, and the overall mathematics curriculum will be enhanced.

Author : Daniel H. Robinson
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030907929
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning Styles, Classroom Instruction, and Student Achievement written by Daniel H. Robinson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-29 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the history of learning styles, including their widespread acceptance and endorsement in educational settings. In addition, it explores both the support of and opposition to learning styles by academics. The book discusses cases for and against learning styles and offers a systematic review of empirical evidence. It describes consequences of promoting learning styles in the classroom and offers insights into future directions in research and practice.The book offers a critical examination that adds to the broader discussion of what is truthful and what is fake news in education. Key areas of coverage include: History of learning styles. Widespread belief in and uses of learning styles. Review of recent learning styles coverage in academic journals. The case for learning styles. The case against learning styles. Consequences associated with using learning styles. Learning Styles, Classroom Instruction, and Student Achievement is an essential resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as teachers and educational professionals in such varied fields as clinical child and school psychology, educational psychology, social work, public health, teaching and teacher education, and educational practice and policy.

Author : Jenny Carter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319985906
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Higher Education Computer Science written by Jenny Carter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is currently a great emphasis on teaching quality in Higher Education. In the UK, the Teaching Excellence Framework and the National Student Survey have contributed significantly to this focus. Additional support for staff to develop teaching skills has also come from the Higher Education Academy, whose fellowship scheme encourages HE staff to focus on their practice in the classroom. The growth in the number of students attending university has resulted in a much wider range of learning styles amongst them. Many students do not fit the idealised average of being adept at learning from primarily text-based media. Two further trends are also driving change and innovation in academic staff teaching. The first is the availability of online teaching materials such as MOOCs. The second is the emphasis now given to student postgraduate employability, represented by certain aspects of the Teaching Excellence Framework that require students not only to know information, but also to be able to articulate that knowledge and to demonstrate their skills. With a desire to enable our students to achieve their highest potential, many staff undertake initiatives to facilitate learning that accommodate a wide range of learning styles. This book focuses on approaches to teaching and learning within the discipline of Computer Science. The book consists of a selection of chapters that describe a particular teaching activity or topic within Computing in HE, presented in such a way that other practitioners can adopt and adapt them as a way of helping them to develop their own teaching. It provides a number of practical cases of putting theory into practice when teaching Computer Science to both undergraduate and postgraduate students in Higher Education institutions. A chapter on the importance of developing soft skills and a professional online presence is also included as an essential part of preparing the students for their future employment.

Author : Rita Stafford Dunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Students Through Their Individual Learning Styles written by Rita Stafford Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: