1. First-Year Engineering Program Engineering H191 Engineering Fundamentals and Laboratory I Lecture 13A Learning Styles

2. First-Year Engineering Program 2Aiutumn 2008 Objectives Discuss learning styles Take the learning styles inventory Look at the results

3. First-Year Engineering Program 3Aiutumn 2008 Learning – A Matter of Style Do you understand your own learning style? Do you understand the style to which or by which you teach, answer questions, ask questions? Is everyone not "normal" like me?

4. First-Year Engineering Program 4Aiutumn 2008 Learning – A Matter of Style Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Kolb’s Learning Style Model Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI) Felder-Silverman Learning Style Model

5. First-Year Engineering Program 5Aiutumn 2008 Index of Learning Styles Go to: –Carmen > Course Tools > Learning Styles Inventory –(Carmen is at: http://carmen.osu.edu) Or go directly to: –http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html Complete inventory and submit Print 2 copies –You –Instructor

6. First-Year Engineering Program 6Aiutumn 2008 Learning Style Distribution –How many are Active? –How many are Sensors? –How many are Visual? –How many are Sequential? How many are Reflective How many are Intuitive? How many are Verbal? How many are Global? Let’s see what these categories mean How are the learning styles in this class distributed?

7. First-Year Engineering Program 7Aiutumn 2008 Active and Reflective Learners Active learners tend to retain and understand information best by doing something active with it. "Let’s try it and see how it works." Reflective learners prefer to think about it quietly first. "Hold on…let's think about this for a minute."

8. First-Year Engineering Program 8Aiutumn 2008 Sensing and Intuitive Learners Sensors tend to like learning facts. Patient with details, usually good at memorizing Intuitives tend to prefer discovering possibilities and relationships. Better at grasping new concepts, comfortable with abstractions.

9. First-Year Engineering Program 9Aiutumn 2008 Visual and Verbal Learners Visual learners remember best when seeing pictures, flow charts, diagrams, demonstrations. "Draw it out for us." Verbal learners get more out of words. –Written –Spoken "Describe it to the rest of the group."

10. First-Year Engineering Program 10Aiutumn 2008 Sequential & Global Learners Sequential learners tend to gain understanding in linear steps. "Tree, tree, tree…many trees together…ahhh forest." Global learners tend to learn in large steps…suddenly they "get it"! "? ? ? ? Forest!!"

11. First-Year Engineering Program 11Aiutumn 2008 Learning Styles and Strategies Remember…learning styles measure preference NOT competence Better understanding of how you learn can help regardless of an instructor's style Understanding your preference and that of others may help in teamwork and engineering practice