An Introduction to Learning Styles:
How Students Learn, How Teachers Teach,
and What Usually Goes Wrong with the Process

Richard M. Felder
Hoechst Celanese Professor of Chemical Engineering
North Carolina State University

February 15, 2007
1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

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Abstract:   Students learn in a variety of ways: by seeing and hearing, working alone and in groups, reasoning logically and intuitively, memorizing and visualizing and modeling. Teaching methods also vary: some instructors lecture, others demonstrate or discuss; some focus on principles and others on applications; some emphasize memory and others understanding. How much students learn in a class depends among other things on the match between their learning style preferences and the instructor's teaching style. This interactive presentation defines different learning styles, explores the consequences of mismatches between learning and teaching styles, and offers ideas for reaching students with a wider variety of learning styles than are reached with traditional teaching methods.

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