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February 23, 2009 by Travis Smith 1 Comment

Learning: Types, Modes, & Mediums

So Steve Sorden (@sorden) posted a comment-question on Twitter, “informal, formal, social, self-directed, action, observation “learning”. Any other types of “learning” that come to mind?” For some reason, I could not let this question go and have been thinking about it for some time now. However, the problem with this is that “types” is vague as well as “learning.” So to really nail down this question, one needs to define both. For example, by types, do we mean styles, mediums, modes of learning, or all or something else entirely? To complicate this even further, there are 9 different types of intelligences (Gardner) and learners.

So let’s see if I can come up with a complicated list of some sort. There are a variety of types of learning: informal (see here, here), formal, social (and here, a guide here, here), uLearning (ubiquitous), self-directed, independent, action/kinesthetic, emotional? auditory, and observational/visual learning.

ULearningThere a limited number of modes of learning: see, hear, see & hear, discuss, experience, and teach (can we add imaginative?). Then there is a growing number of mediums of learning: mentoring/discipleship/apprenticeship, small group learning, eLearning, classroom learning, mLearning (mobile), and virtual learning.

What do you think? This is not meant to be exhaustive, but is there more? What would you add, merge, or take away?

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About Travis Smith

Travis is passionate about creating innovative and creative solutions that perform and scale today with tomorrow in mind ensuring that the solutions work for the client and consumer, not against them. Travis is the B2C Consumer Products Enterprise Architect with The Weather Company, an IBM Business, located in Atlanta GA. Previously Travis worked as a SharePoint developer and architect, a WordPress developer, core contributor, and WordCamp speaker (read more about his WordPress journey).

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  1. Chris Buckingham says

    February 26, 2009 at 4:41 pm

    Hi Smithers

    I think this stuff is awesome.

    I have been teaching TEFL for around 8 years but am recently finding myself drawn to the individual rather that the collective approach to teaching.

    I love this idea of being given freedom to create an individual curriculum for individual learners.

    However scales of economics are prohibitive right now, but the future with technology could open up all kind of possibilities.

    Cheers.

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