{"id":9465,"date":"2012-03-02t08:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-02t14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/?p=9465"},"modified":"2012-03-01t11:50:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01t17:50:52","slug":"a-conversation-on-learning-styles-with-dr-bill-cerbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2012\/03\/a-conversation-on-learning-styles-with-dr-bill-cerbin\/","title":{"rendered":"a conversation on learning styles with dr. bill cerbin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>mention teaching and learning in just about any conversation and you’re likely to hear someone say “i’m a visual learner<\/em>” or “not me, i’m an active learner<\/em>.” you, yourself, might identify with a particular learning style and perhaps see elements of how you best learn come through in the teaching strategies you use. \u00a0some argue that there are identifiable ways that people learn while\u00a0others dispute that learning styles exist <\/a>at all<\/a>.<\/p>\n

over at the virtual teaching and learning center of the university of wisconsin colleges blog<\/a><\/strong>, the cft’s new assistant director nancy chick is interviews bill cerbin in one of the center’s podcasts. in the interview, cerbin\u00a0mentions several misconceptions about “learning styles,” ultimately concluding that “learning styles” as we often think of them, do not exist.<\/p>\n

cerbin and chick discuss the misconceptions and cerbin offers\u00a0a few practices that enhance student learning.\u00a0jen heinert (the new director of the virtual teaching and learning center at the university of wisconsin colleges)\u00a0poses a few questions for consideration<\/a>, so head on over and listen to the podcast<\/a> and then leave your comments for her on this topic.<\/p>\n

<\/a>\"\"<\/a>bill cerbin<\/a> is the\u00a0director of the center for advancing teaching and learning and professor of psychology at\u00a0university of wisconsin-la crosse where he has taught for more than 20 years.\u00a0active in the scholarship of teaching and learning he has twice been a carnegie scholar with the carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching. his work focuses on understanding the relationship between teaching and college student learning and thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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