Time for action — determine your learning styles and display them

So let's find out your preferred learning styles:

  1. Revisit the My Learning artefact by clicking on Content and then My Learning.
  2. Below the Multiple Intelligences link, which you clicked during the preceding Time for action — determine multiple intelligences and display them, you will see a paragraph introducing the concept of learning styles.
  3. Click on the Learning Styles link.
  4. You will see a long list of statements about specific learning situations. You have a number of options for each statement — Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Often, and Always. Answer all of the questions:
    Time for action — determine your learning styles and display them
  5. When you have finished, click on Save at the bottom of the page.
  6. Now, as with the multiple intelligences, you need to add the learning styles block to a page in order to see the results. Open up a new or existing page in editing view.
  7. Under the Profile block tab, you will see an icon for learning styles.
  8. Drag the block onto your page. You will see some options for editing the colors of the pie chart and its legend. Click on Save.
  9. In your page, you will see a pie chart displaying your preferred learning styles.
    Time for action — determine your learning styles and display them
  10. Looks like I'm more of a kinesthetic/visual learner.

What just happened?

You just learned how to work out your learning styles and display them in a Mahara page.

Were you surprised by the results? Next time you take a course why not tailor your studies to your preferred learning styles? On the VARK website, there are some useful help sheets that give you some ideas for learning strategies once you know your results (http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=helpsheets).

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