Practical Approaches to Using Learning Styles in Higher Education.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- I Introduction to Learning Styles in Higher Education -- 1 Capitalizing on College Students' Learning Styles: Theory, Practice, and Research -- 2 Practical Approaches to Using Learning Styles in Higher Education: The How-to Steps -- II Applications in Education -- 3. Learning Styles in Graduate Education Classes: The River of No Return -- 4 Educating Secondary Teachers to Work with Students' Diverse Styles -- 5 One Texas University's Approach to Integrating Learning Styles in Teacher Education: Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk -- 6 Hannibal "Lecture" Changes His Oral Menu -- 7 Distance Education: Reaching Beyond the Walls -- 8 Learning Styles in a Suburban College -- 9 A Paradigm Shift: Learning-Styles Implementation and Preservice Teachers -- 10 Learning Styles and College Teaching: My Experiences with Education Majors -- 11 Tactual Learning at the Doctoral Level: A Risk Worth Taking -- 12 Divergent Styles, Common Goals: Implications for Counselors -- 13 Teacher Training in Progress: Giving It Our Best Shot -- 14 Project Learn: A University-Initiated Consortium of Science Educators and Practitioners -- 15 Teaching Graduate Students with a Learning-Styles Approach: Adding Zest to the Course Ingredients -- III Applications in Health-Related Professions -- 16 Incorporating Learning Styles into the Curricula of Two Programs in a College of Health-Related Professions -- IV Applications in Schools of Law, Engineering, and Liberal Arts -- 17 Bringing Learning-Style Instructional Strategies to Law Schools: You Be the Judge! -- 18 Meeting the Academic Challenges of an Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum -- 19 The Writing Portfolio as a Learning-Styles Tool in a College English-as-a-Second-Language Course -- V Applications in Colleges of Business.

20 Contract Activity Packages in Higher Education: The Flexible Flyer of Pedagogy -- 21 How I Found Pedagogical Nirvana: Beware of the Law of Unintended Consequences! -- 22 Global Teaching in an Analytic Environment: Is There Madness in the Method? -- Epilogue -- Appendix A Award-Winning Learning-Styles Research -- Appendix B Hemispheric Preference Scale (Zenhausern, 1988) -- Appendix C Hemispheric Preference Scale: Scoring Instructions -- Appendix D Example of an Analytic-Format Syllabus -- Appendix E Example of a Global-Format Syllabus -- Appendix F Law School Quiz -- Appendix G Law School Quiz Answers -- Appendix H Alternative Instructional Methods Responsive to Diverse Learning-Style Characteristics -- Appendix I Research Concerned with College Students' Learning Styles -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- About the Editors and Contributors.

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