Diversity Series: Learning Styles

Why are learning styles relevant to this Diversity Series?

Because a person's preferred learning style tells a lot about their information-processing style and how best to communicate information to that person.

In terms of interpersonal relations, you gain a great advantage by knowing your own and the other person's preferred styles.

As a professional communicator, you can consider this another tool available to you to understand your audience. You can review a communication to consider how to make it easier for people of each learning style.

To learn your own style, do the online test at A Learning Style Survey for College.
The four styles used in that survey:

1. The Visual/ Verbal
2. The Visual/ Nonverbal
3. The Tactile/ Kinesthetic
4. The Auditory/ Verbal

are explained at

The Four Learning Styles in the DVC Survey

Others have written about the learning style issue, so you can look at the other approaches here:

1. Kolb Learning Styles: www.infed.org/biblio/b-explrn.htm
2. Honey & Mumford Learning Styles: http://www.campaign-for-learning.org.uk/aboutyourlearning/whatlearning.htm
3. 4MAT: http://www.aboutlearning.com/all-about-4mat.htm