Student's learning styles will obviously impact their success online. Students may benefit from understanding their own learning style by completing and online questionnaire.
Students
have different learning styles--characteristic strengths and preferences in the
ways they take in and process information.
Some students tend to focus on
facts, data, and algorithms; others are more comfortable with theories and
mathematical models.
Some respond strongly to visual forms of information, like
pictures, diagrams, and schematics; others get more from verbal forms--written
and spoken explanations.
Some prefer to learn actively and interactively;
others function more introspectively and individually...
"A learning style model is useful if balancing instruction on each of the model dimensions meets the learning needs of essentially all students in a class."
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