Online Learning Strategies for Thinking and Learning Styles

I. Auditory or verbal idea
- Task or activity: "word connecting" - student write what he/she learned or what was curious in ‘one sentence’. And then others should start to write a sentence using the last word of the previous person’s sentence.
- Goal: engagement/ cognition
- Target: K-12 ~ higher education

II. Visual learning idea
- Task or activity: “situated simulation or game” – each group has a problem to solve together. They have to solve it with given materials or clues through the web.
- Goal: motivation/problem solving/ collaboration
- Target: k-12

III. reflective or observational idea
- Task or activity: “peer-developed assessment” – 2 students develop an assessment to evaluate themselves.
- Goal: self-efficacy/ motivation/ collaboration
- Target: higher education

IV. hands-on or kinesthetic idea

- Task or activity: “building a concept map” – group develops a concept map together or a chapter or a reading.
- Goal: collaboration/ metacognition
- Target: hierarchical contents/ k-12 ~ higher education