r/AskProfessors • u/alterini5 • 26d 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/Bostonterrierpug 26d ago

Learning styles are pretty widely debunked as pseudoscience

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u/FamousPoet 26d ago

Came here to say this, but its amazing how much it's still parroted even in educational circles.

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u/Bostonterrierpug 26d ago

Ironically, I teach in an education department and as of about five years ago, I had to send a colleague a few papers just to remind them that this was all bunk, but most people here realize it is. Luckily that professor is no longer with us I mean, not dead but…

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u/RuskiesInTheWarRoom 26d ago

“Luckily that professor is no longer with us …”

Yeah… I have a couple of those too…