How do you like your learning?
By Sanders Kleinfeld
At Head First, we know that learning styles vary widely from person to person, which is why we use multiple presentation styles to teach each concept: diagrams for visual learners, dialogues for aural learners, exercises for people who tend to learn best by jumping right in and experimenting.
But this begs the all-important question: What kind of learner are you?
The education theorist David Kolb created a Learning Style Inventory in the 1970s to classify people into four categories based on their learning abilities: convergers, divergers, assimilators, and accommodators. Read more about these groups here, and find out which learning style best describes you.
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I think it depends how I am feeling on a particular day. Pictures are great and are good at giving an overview, but I kinda like backup text to get deeper.
But it's just a format thing. I like to interact rather than just passively receive info. Engagement and variety.
Like Plato, an assimilator.
Yes, exactly. The Learning Style Inventory is effectively a psychometric test used to gauge your learning style, and thus your suitability for certain jobs.