Fri, August 15th 2014 at 5:19 PM Updated Wed, September 16th 2015 at 12:29 PM Identify your child's learning style ...

The two-week course covers basic learning theory, adult learning principles, learning styles and motivation theory.

The 'VARK' Learning Styles inventory is one of the most popular and classifies people into Visual (V), Aural (A), Reading/writing (R) and Kinaesthetic (K) (or a combination of those).

The idea of learning styles has been around for more than 50 years. In 1975, German biochemist Frederic Vester introduced the concept in his popular science book Thinking, Learning, Forgetting.

BBC Basic did a lot of things, and often quite well. During the early 1980s, it extended the BASIC languages with easier loop structures, like IF/THEN/ELSE, and ran faster than Microsoft's version.

He states that “learning is conceived as a four-stage cycle” drawing on all basic learning styles within an experiential learning framework of concrete experience, reflective observation ...

A new study offers further evidence against the "learning styles" theory—the idea that students can process information best when teachers tailor instruction to students' strengths.