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Learning styles are a pedagogical myth

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Learning styles are a pedagogical myth

Decades of research prove that humans do not strictly learn better through ‘visual’ or ‘auditory’ methods alone; dual coding and context matter most. Clinging to learning styles shows how The illusion of competence tricks learners.1

Footnotes

  1. Pashler, H., et al. (2008). Learning Styles. ↩

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