Matching Up Learning Styles With Learning Objects: What's Effective?

Matching Up Learning Styles with Learning Objects: What's Effective?
Lori Mestre lmestre@illinois.edu
Fourteenth Off Campus Library Services Conference
April 29, 2010

What’sYour Learning Style?
Visual?
Verbal/Auditory?
Read Write?
Kinesthetic?

From Recent Class of Students

Cultural Differences Can Influence Learning
Different Dimensions of Learning
Instructional Practices
Information Processing
Social Interaction Tendencies
Influence of Personality

What’s your process for putting together a puzzle? Borders 1st?

Or more by concept, color….?

Overview of Presentation

Discussion of Learning Objects
What are Some Learning Objects You Use?

Discussion of Learning Objects
Videos
Images
Polls
Tutorials
Games
Podcasts

Study Overview

Summary of Results- Study 1

Features Used to Facilitate Instruction

What Training Have you Had Related to Pedagogy in Online Learning?

Study 2

Options for Learning through Multiple Modalities

Do you plan your objects so that a user can pick and choose what to do next?

Simulations or Interactive Features for Tactile Learners?

Learning Style Background

Student Involvement
Took Two Learning Style Inventories
Index of Learning Style Inventory
http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html (NC State)
Vark Questionnaire (How do I Learn Best)
http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnaire
Went through two to three tutorials
a web page static tutorial to learn how to get to and use ERIC
a camtasia tutorial to learn how to get to and find a database through Online Research Resources

Match up Learning Objects with Learning Style Preferences

Learning Styles Using Vark Assessment Hispanic and Asian Americans

Preference for Under 18 Years
Preference 55+ Age
Summary from the Vark Database About Learning Styles.

Using NCSU Learning Style Assessment

Visual Learner
Verbal Learner

Acadia Institute for Teaching and Technology
Sequential Learner
Global Learner

Usability Interviews by Students

Student Results- Ability to Recreate Steps

Tutorial with Text Based

Static Tutorial Results
Scrolled up and down the page to see all the sections and what was required
Viewed images (rarely read the text)
Opened a new window to practice while they viewed the web page
Went back to web page for information
Most successful in finding information after this.

Camtasia Version
UIUC Tutorials http://www.library.illinois.edu/diglit/tutorial/index.html

Camtasia Results
Watched without practicing
Couldn’t recreate process
Didn’t attempt to go back for assistance
Only two students were successful in the post test (graduate Asian students)

Recommended Features
Pop-ups to highlight important information
Sections (chapter markings)
Questions to engage the mind
Interactivity, have students do something
Prefer the static web page to a video tutorial- more efficient– include other multimedia as options within the web page.

Results- Student Usability Study
Multiple Modalities
All but one had high rankings for multiple modalities.
All but one preferred the step-by-step process.
Students wanted to skim the whole thing first then find the key items .

What Students Want

What Do Students Want?

Mismatch

Examples of Engaging Tutorials

Humor and Interactivity
You quote it, you note it:
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/

Choices and Paths
Relevance

Interactivity
Tactile, Reading

Interactivity/Assessment
http://support.library.ewu.edu/reference/tutorial/flash/citation.html

Interactivity and Assessments
Read, Reflect and Respond

Interactivity -
they have to do something

Review

Suggestions

Net Generation

Resources Used in Presentation
Index of Learning Style Inventory
http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html (NC State)
http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSdir/styles.htm
Vark Questionnaire (How do I Learn Best)
http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnaire
Helpsheets for Study Practices based on Preferences: http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=helpsheets
Keys to Effective Learning http://blog.iqmatrix.com/mind-map/accelerated-learning-mind-map
Felder Richard M. and Barbara A. Soloman. “Learning Styles and Strategies.” North Carolina State University, 2009. June 1, 2009. <http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSdir/styles.htm>.
Acadia Institute for Teaching and Technology. Learning Styles
http://learningcommons.acadiau.ca/resources/workshops/learningstyles.ppt
Tutorial Examples Used:
You quote it, you note it: http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/
Rutgers: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~estec/tutorials/scholarly.htm
Eastern Washington University: APA Citation Style Tutorial http://support.library.ewu.edu/reference/tutorial/flash/citation.html
UIUC- Digital Literacy http://www.library.illinois.edu/diglit/
For lots of resources for creating or finding learning objects see:
http://uiuc.libguides.com/learningobjects

Lori Mestre
lmestre@illinois.edu
Made possible by a grant from the Research and Publications Committee of the University of Illinois

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