Fleming :: VARK

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Moodle

Lesson branching on learning stylesIf using the Lesson activity, then consider branching not on content but on learning style.

Consider this idea:

  1. survey your students for learning styles
  2. so far as possible, create separate groups of VARKs
  3. create a branching table in the lesson
  4. encourage them to go down the V-A-R-K tunnels of the lesson
  5. bring them all back together at the end
  6. herd them straight into a forum

 

Ethical concernsIs it ethical to force students down a channel, to deny them access to the others? After all, a student who tested V+ at the beginning of the course might be on the cusp of coming out as A+. Better to survey them, make up the separate groups, then amuse yourself watching who does what... do the Vs actually choose to watch the video, and do the Ks actually dissect the frog?

 

 

Neil Fleming, VARK http://www.vark-learn.com/english/index.asp
Moodle docs, Separate Groups http://docs.moodle.org/en/Groups
Moodle docs, Lesson Module http://docs.moodle.org/en/Lesson