How People Learn

Learning Styles

Learning Style Inventory
"The following evaluation is a short, quick way of assessing your learning style."
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How People Learn
A set of links to various topics in learning, including the VARK inventory, the Keirsey tests, and more.
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Student Learning Styles/Strategies and Professor's Expectations: Do They Match?
"University students may not always learn in ways that match those that professors use in their teaching.
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Current Perspectives on Cognitive and Learning Styles
"Students tend to perform differently in various situations due to their cognitive styles, and these performance differences will likely be consistent and stable over time."
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Theories of Learning

Explorations in Learning & Instruction: the Theory into Practice (TIP) Database
"TIP is a tool intended to make learning and instructional theory more accessible to educators. The database contains brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction."
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Teaching and Learning Theory: Who Needs It?
"In community colleges, where teaching degrees are not required, teachers often have little or no awareness of learning theory."
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Motivation

see Building Relationships - Engaging Learners

Adapting Materials for Specific Learner Needs

Planning Lessons for Student's Preferred Learning Styles
"It is important to vary the activities in your lessons so that you cater for students with different learning styles. The following lesson-planning framework can help you do this."
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Adapting Class Materials for Multi-Learning Styles
"Wherever possible, decide what is compulsory and what is optional for students to do. Then allow them to choose the number of items they want to complete and the order in which they wish to work."
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Adapting Your Teaching to Any Learning Style
"Suggests how teachers can adapt their teaching style so that more students are likely to learn."
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Types of learning

Experiential Learning

David A. Kolb on Experiential Learning
"David A. Kolb's model of experiential learning can be found in many discussions of the theory and practice of adult education, informal education and lifelong learning. We set out the model, and examine its possibilities and problems."
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The Experiential Learning Cycle
"Kolb (1984) provides one of the most useful (but contestable) descriptive models available of the adult learning process, inspired by the work of Kurt Lewin."
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Active Learning

Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
"Apathetic students, illiterate graduates, incompetent teaching, impersonal campuses -- so rolls the drumfire of criticism of higher education."
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Patterns for Active Learning
"This pattern language focuses on pedagogy that promotes active learning for beginners to advanced level."
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Clickers in the Classroom: An Active Learning Approach
Most research has indicated using clickers in the classroom engages students. This article explores their benefits for active learning.
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These Lectures are Gone in 60 Seconds
"Microlectures are abbreviated lectures that focus on main concepts, themes and terminology rather than details."
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Independent Learning

Interpretations of Independent Learning in Further Education
"The focus of this article is the interpretation of independent learning by 16‐ to 19‐year‐old students at a further education tertiary college."
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Structured Packs for Independent Learning: A Comparison of Learning Outcome and Acceptability with Conventional Teaching
"The GMC recommends that students become independent learners, while tutor time is an increasingly precious resource. A set of structured learning materials requiring students to undertake and reflect on practical tasks in five learning areas was developed..."
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Independent Learning and Test Question Development
"The article focuses on how Western Governors University (WGU) in the U.S. develops test questions to assess students' learning."
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Student-Driven Module: Promoting Independent Learning
"Programming courses can, by their nature, be very dry. One question this raises is: can a student-driven course provide an opportunity for a higher level of learning?"
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Online Learning

see Teaching Methods - Distance Education

Collaborative Learning

Culture-Aware Collaborative Learning
"The purpose of this paper is to suggest the adaptation of the collaborative learning environment to the learner's cultural profile."
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Technology in Support of Collaborative Learning
"This paper reviews the research conducted in the last 20 years on the application of technology in support of collaborative learning in higher education."
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What is Collaborative Learning?
"Teachers who use collaborative learning approaches tend to think of themselves less as expert transmitters of knowledge to students, and more as expert designers of intellectual experiences for students-as coaches or mid-wives of a more emergent learning process."
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State of Cooperative Learning in Post-Secondary and Professional Settings
"In this article, social interdependence theory will be reviewed, the research validating the theory will be summarized, and the five basic elements needed to understand the dynamics of cooperation and operationalize the validated theory will be discussed."
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Problem/Project/Case-Based Learning

Problem Based Learning
A video discussing the use of PBL at a university in Austria
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Problem Based Learning
"Problem-based learning (PBL) is a student-centered instructional strategy in which students collaboratively solve problems and reflect on their experiences."
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Project Based Learning
"...a one stop solution for Project Based Learning! You'll find all the resources you need to design and manage high quality projects..."
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Statistics

Education at a Glance 2008: OECD Indicators
"The indicators look at who participates in education, what is spent on it and how education systems operate and at the results achieved."
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Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training in Canada
"...education indicators and Canadian education analysis...in a non-technical, highly readable format for teachers, students, parents, education associations, researchers and policy makers.
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Education Indicators in Canada: Report of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program June 2009
"...provides a statistical portrait of the elementary, secondary and postsecondary education systems..."
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National Graduates Survey
Interesting facts about Canadian college and university grads.
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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Results from all years the KPIs have been collected.
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