30 NOV Thursday
Lecture 2
By
Shifa Zulnoor
Readiness to Learn
Physical Readiness
Emotional Readiness
Experiential Readiness
Knowledge Readiness
Learning Styles
Determining Learning Styles
Learning Style Models and Instruments
Right-Brain/Left-Brain and Whole-Brain Thinking
Field-Independent/Field-Dependent Perception
Dunn and Dunn Learning Styles
Kolb’s Experiential Learning Model
4MAT System
Gardner’s Eight Types of Intelligence
Interpretation of the Use of Learning Style Models and
Instruments
Definition:The time when the learner
demonstrates an interest in learning the
information necessary to maintain optimal
health or to become more skillful in a job
1. Educators need to understand their own
learning style.
2. Educators need to guard again relying on
teaching methods and tools that match
their own learning style.
3. Educators are most helpful when they assist
learners in identifying and learning
according to the learner’s own style
preferences.
4. Learners should have the opportunity to
learn through their preferred style.
5. The more frequently learners are exposed
to different methods of learning, the less
stressful those methods are in the future.
6. Educators can develop specific learning
activities that reinforce each modality or
style.
Environmental
Emotional
Sociological
Physicalelements
Psychosocial
Reproduced from Kolb, D. A., (1984). Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development. Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. © 1984. Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education, Inc., New York, NY.
McCarthy’s four types of learners
– Imaginative
– Analytical
– Common sense
– Dynamic
Linguistic
Spatial
Kinesthetic
Logical-mathematical
Musical
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Naturalistic
Become familiar with different models and use
various styles.
Identify key elements of an individual’s learning
style.
Allow learners the opportunity to say when a
model is not working for them.
Encourage learners to be more aware of their
learning styles.
Expose all learners to various learning styles.
Online/ Face to face
One patient/ Massive number
Community based education
Synchronous/ Asynchronous
Personal experience: the students name
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Youmight know it as the feeling that your
brain is over stimulated and completely full
and your thoughts are more or less melting
under the pressure. It not only happens to
teachers, but it can affect students’/
patients and all learners.
While cognitive load can happen in face to face
environment, patients are at greater risk in an online
learning environment because of added load on
managing new technologies and dealing with
distraction
If comes down to the brain’s finite working memory
reasons
Humans have a certain working memory capacity, and
it’s placed under strain when we take on new
information or are trying to learn something complex.
That call cognitive load or amount of mental exertion
needed to complete a task. Too much mental
exertion lead to situation called cognitive overload
