Overview Of HOW ADULTS LEARN

Here is a quick overview of How Adults Learn, which hopefully expand your thinking in the learning game! Shipman & Shipman verified that learning can require many different approaches and that learners perform best when their individual learning nuances are taken into account. In study after study, Carbo, DeBello, Della Valle, Hodges, Shea, Virosko, White, Kolb, Herrmann, research shows that when learners are taught in their own particular style, their motivation, initiative and results improve. In fact Matberry and Sinatra suggest that the choice of learning style actually affects the physical structure of the brain. Just take apause there, learning style afeects the physical development of the brain!

Wlodlowski says that the ideal process is to introduce a topic in the preferred style, and then, for maximum understanding, expose the learner to as many other processes and styles as time allows.

The implications of this research is staggering. For instance 70% of all teachers are sequential, analytical presenters. You may remember this style from school. The issue is that 74% of all students do not do not learn best in this way. Blackman suggested that using all styles was a better way of teaching – so each student had access to their preferred style.

This concept is the Accelerated Learning format approach.