The Importance of Learning Styles

Understanding the Implications for Learning, Course Design, and Education

Ronald R. Sims, Serbrenia J. Sims

• Publisher: Praeger
• Year: 1995
• Print ISBN:
  9780313292781
• eBook ISBN:
  9780313005893
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This book provides a timely review of learning style research. It examines those approaches that purport to promote effective learning. It affirms the need for instructors and trainers to recognize the importance of individual learning differences and to use methods that help create a learning climate which increases the potential learning for all students or trainees regardless of their preferred way of learning.

The ability to understand and to teach to the various learning styles of students is essential to improving the effectiveness of college-level education. In this book, Sims and Sims bring together significant research to aid academics and organizational trainers in understanding and applying learning style research and knowledge to program, course, and class development.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Learning Enhancement in Higher Education
• 2. Learning Styles: A Survey of Adult Learning Style Inventory Models
• 3. Increasing the Effectiveness of University/College Instruction: Integrating the Results of Learning Style Research into Course Design and Delivery
• 4. Toward a Framework for Matching Teaching and Learning Styles for Diverse Populations
• 5. Learning Styles and the Changing Face of Community Colleges
• 6. The Importance of Learning Styles in Total Quality Management-Oriented College and University Courses
• 7. Adapting Faculty and Student Learning Styles: Implications for Accounting Education
• 8. Using Experiential Learning Theory and Learning Styles in Diversity Education
• 9. Experiential Learning: Preparing Students to Move from the Classroom to the Work Environment
• 10. The Nature of Adult Learning and Effective Training Guidelines
• 11. The Learning Model for Managers: A Tool to Facilitate Learning
• 12. Learning and Learning Styles: A Review and Look to the Future
• Index
• About the Contributors 215