LEARNING STYLES

Learning styles refer to a range of theories that aim to account for differences in individuals' learning.

Overview of models

David Kolb's model

David A. Kolb's model is based on his experiential learning model, as explained in his book Experiential Learning. Kolb's model outlines two related approaches toward grasping experience: Concrete Experience and Abstract Conceptualization, as well as two related approaches toward transforming experience: Reflective Observation and Active Experimentation.

Peter Honey and Alan Mumford's model

Peter Honey and Alan Mumford adapted Kolb's experiential learning model.

First, they renamed the stages in the learning cycle to accord with managerial experiences: having an experience, reviewing the experience, concluding from the experience, and planning the next steps

Second, they aligned these stages to four learning styles named:

1. Activist

2. Reflector

3. Theorist

4. Pragmatist

Learning modalities

Walter Burke Barbe and colleagues proposed three learning modalities (often identified by the acronym VAK):

1. Visualizing modality

2. Auditory modality

3. Kinesthetic modality

Neil Fleming's VAK/VARK model

Neil Fleming's VARK model and inventory expanded upon earlier notions of sensory modalities such as the VAK model of Barbe and colleagues and the representational systems (VAKOG) in neuro-linguistic programming. The four sensory modalities in Fleming's model are:

1. Visual learning

2. Aural learning

3. Reading/writing learning

4. Kinesthetic learning

Happy Learning :)