Generated questions learning model (GQLM): Beyond learning styles

Rita Dunn Answers Questions on Learning Styles

Q: In what ways are the models similar to and/or different from each other? A: »Each of the models advocates ac knowledging and honoring the diver sity among individuals • Most models urge that teachers adapt instruction to the ways in which individuals, rather than groups, learn Some believe in 'matching" to learn ing style characteristics all the time; others believe in matching some of the t...

E-Learning: some unanswered questions

Medical Students' Learning Styles

Introduction: Considering students' learning styles may change teaching methods in accordance with their learning styles and consequently improve the educational outcome. The aim of this study was to investigate learning styles of medical students in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This descriptive study was performed during the academic year of 2008-2009 in Isfahan Univer-si...

Incorporating Learning Styles in a Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Model

Collaborative learning enables individual learners to combine their own expertise, experience and ability to accomplish a mutual learning goal. The grouping of learners, and learning from social interactions with peer-learners, are two basic characteristics of collaborative learning. For individual learners to benefit from collaborative learning, individual learners with different characteristi...

Learning Styles

sequential students have strong skills in working with written and verbal symbols. They tend to think abstractly and use conceptual “pictures” as they learn. They are able to grasp concepts and ideas vicariously. They prefer to learn through reading and listening and profit from orderly, rational presentations given by authorities. Abstract random students are tuned to nuances of mood and atmos...