What

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Whats Your Style?

• Using Learning Styles to Succeed in Online
  Classes
• Kris Bigalk

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ObjectivesAfter completing this module, you
will

• Identify your learning style preferences
• Learn how online learning complements and/or
  challenges certain learning styles
• Design strategies for your online learning that
  address your learning style preferences and take
  into account the advantages and limitations
  presented by online courses

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Defining Learning Style

• Learning happens differently for different people
  in different situations
• How do you learn?

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Some Learning Style Theories

• Sensory Learning (sight, sound, touch, taste,
  smell)
• Gardners Multiple Intelligences
• Abstract/Concrete and Random/Sequential
• Personality Tests
• What do you already know about your learning
  style?

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Grashas Learning Style Index

• Used for 30 years
• Focused on college students learning styles
• Based on the idea that all students can use all
  learning styles, but prefer different styles
  based on the course, its delivery method, etc.

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Grasha-Reichmann Learning Style Survey

• Think about the following survey in terms of how
  you feel about THIS course and/or THIS subject.
• There are no right or wrong answers on the
  survey everyone learns differently, and the idea
  is to find out how you learn bestso just answer
  the questions honestly.

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Grasha Survey, continued

• When you have finished the survey, click on
  Score Survey then print off or write down your
  scores in each category, along with if the scores
  are High, Medium, or Low
• Click here to take the survey. Youll have
  fifteen minutes. http//www.iats.com/publications/
  GLSI.html