When looking at learning styles tutors should be more adaptive to students needs, rather than students having to come out of their comfort-zone of achievement to fulfill a tutors style of teaching.
E-learning can facilitate this as it can be adapted to suit the need of the student more than 'front of class' run lessons. We assess the learning needs of all our students when they register for our courses and try to match deliver as near as we can to this need. Not to say we haven't hit a few problems, including working with a student with split personalities. I feel e-learning offers the opportunities in personal development that will make it easier to deliver to diverse students, but however, I feel that on-line learning quite often fails in this requirement.
Has any body had involvement in the use of NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) in teaching? The reason I ask is that when assessing a students Primary Representational Systems we look at a wider area of stimuli.
The 'predicates', as they are called fall in to 6 groups which can and do have an influence on how the learner learns. The 6 predicates are:
visual (V),auditory tonal (At), kinesthetic (K), olfactory (O), gustatory (G), or auditory digital (Ad). When working with special needs students you may find that these have a major influence on how they perceive the world and how best to approach their learning needs.