Forearmed with this knowledge you will be better able to set up learning situations that suit you, including teaching teachers how best to guide you. In this Age of Information where our lives depend more and more on being adept learners, our educational goals must include becoming effective lifelong learners. Links to inventories are listed and explained. Technology provides new capabilities to reconstruct learning environments around specific learning styles. Below is an outline of some possibilities that emerge when using learning style models to develop technological applications to university classrooms.
Every student has one.
By now, every educator should be able to recognize one when he or she sees it. Learning styles are a buzzword in education. First documented by Howard Gardner of Harvard University, learning styles theory gives educators a new way of reaching out to students. When lecture and pen and pencil tests aren't helping some students achieve, integrating learning styles into the classroom can give those students the boost they need to achieve. An objective of education should thus be to help students build their skills in both their preferred and less preferred modes of learning.