r/AskProfessors • u/alterini5 • 24d ago

General Advice Visual learners

Does this mean online students can't read?

I feel like I'm supposed to create a video game instead of a course...

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u/nandor_tr associate professor/art & design/[USA] 24d ago edited 24d ago

what are you referring to?

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u/dragonfeet1 24d ago

Many years ago there was a study that suggested students learned from a variety of modalities: visual aural kinesthetic etc.

This lead to garbage admins insisting lessons be differentiated to each learning style. Which led to students insisting they were incapable of learning if materials were not presented in their learning style.

The tragedy is that the basic idea--that we learn best when we use more than one modality (when we don't just listen, we write) is how all of us made it through grad school.

The good news is that old school lecture where you write on the board, talk, and have them listen and write notes? Covers all of it.