Reach Learners of All Styles With Personalized Training

As online learning becomes more and more common in the evolving world, adapting to this change of learning environment can be difficult for students of all learning styles. But you can be certain, there are ways to adapt online learning to work for students of all learning styles. Turning and Echo360 have come together to redefine the way students engage with online learning through personalized training based on each learner's style.

What are the different learning styles?

There are different schools of thought on the various learning styles, but in this article, we will focus on seven: visual (spatial), aural (auditory/musical), verbal (linguistic), physical (kinesthetic), logical (mathematical), social (interpersonal), and solitary (intrapersonal). Most students demonstrate a strong preference for one of these learning styles with some aspects of a couple of the others. Below, we'll discuss how you can use our products including Dojo360, Point Solutions, ExamView, and Echo360 to personalize your students' learning experiences based on learning style.

How can I personalize the learning experience for different types of learners?

With Dojo360, it's easy to allocate specific assignments to a single student, a small group of students, or an entire class. It only takes the click of a mouse. So if you have an important concept to teach, you can procure or create assignments for different students based on their learning styles. You might include graphs and charts for students who are strongly visual, problem-solving opportunities for students who are strongly mathematical, or virtual lab assignments for physical learners.

If you don't have a good handle on what type of learner each student is, you can offer all students a choice between completing four or five different assignments that teach the concept you are discussing in a different manner. Students will naturally be drawn to the assignment that makes the greatest use of their most effective learning styles.

You can also use Point Solutions to create polls on what types of assignments your students would prefer. You can then use the most common learning preferences to create the majority of your assignments. While you may initially think that each subject lends itself to certain types of learners, the fact is you can use various assignments in any subject.

As an example, you'd think that all math assignments would appeal to logical/ mathematical learning styles, but you can present mathematical problems in different ways for different types of learning styles. Math problems can be explained through an audio link so aural learners can make the most sense of them. Social learners can meet in Dojo360's breakout rooms with each other to discuss new mathematical concepts and work together to complete some sample problems. Solitary learners can choose to work on their own during the same time small groups are working together.

With Echo360, you can create and manage videos that appeal to visual, aural, and other types of learners based on the content you choose to present. Echo360's Automatic Speech Recognition feature can be easily used to create editable, searchable transcripts of videos, which increases accessibility. This can also be beneficial for linguistic learners.

When it comes time to assess students, you can create different types of test questions using ExamView so that each learning style is represented, giving each student the opportunity to shine on the exam.

Customized Learning Solutions for Different Learning Styles

When you use our products together—Dojo360, a powerful learning engagement platform; Point Solutions, a suite that gives you everything you need to engage with our students; ExamView, a content-rich test generator; and Echo360, a video management platform that allows you to create and share a variety of excellent educational content — you have the ability to create a customized learning experience for each student.

To learn more about how you can use our products to create learning opportunities for different types of learners, contact us today to set up a demonstration. You'll be amazed at the simple, yet compelling, features that can benefit students with different learning styles.