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• Determinants of Learning


  • Learning Needs
  • Readiness to Learn
  • Learning Style
  • Learner Needs
• Learning Needs


  What the learner needs to learn
• Readiness to Learn


  When the learner is receptive to learning
• Learning Style


  How the learner best learns
• Learner Needs


  Gaps in knowledge
• Steps to Assess Learning Needs


  1. Identify the learner

  2. Choose the right setting

  3. Collect important information about the learner

  4. Involve members of the health care team

  5. Prioritize needs
• Criteria to Prioritize Needs

  • Mandatory - must be learned
  • Desirable - not be life dependent but related to well-being
  • Possible - nice to know but not essential
• Steps to Assess Learning Needs (continued)

  1. Determine availability of educational resources

  2. Assess the demands of the organization

  3. Take time-management issues into account
• Types of Readiness to Learn

  • Physical Readiness
  • Emotional Readiness
  • Experiential Readiness
  • Knowledge Readiness
• Learning Style Assessment Methods

  • Observation
  • Interviews
  • Learning style instruments
• Learning Styles Models and Instruments

  • Right-Brain/Left-Brain and Whole Brain Thinking
  • Field-Independent/Field-Dependent Perception
  • Dunn and Dunn Learning Style
  • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
  • Kolb's Learning Style Inventory
  • 4MAT System
  • Gardner's Eight Types of Intelligence
  • VARK Learning Styles
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

  Forced choice, self-report inventory based on the Jungian theory of personality type
• Dichotomous preferences in MBTI

  • Extraversion-Introversion (EI)
  • Sensing-Intuition (SN)
  • Thinking-Feeling (TF)
  • Judgement-Perception (JP)
• Kolb's Learning Style Inventory

  Known as the Cycle of Learning, includes four modes of learning. Kolb believes knowledge is a transformational process that is continuously created and recreated. Kolb's theory on learning style is that learning is a cumulative result of past experiences, heredity, and the demands of the present environment.
• 4MAT System


  Developed by McCarthy (1981), describes four types of learners and defines the learning process as a natural sequence from type 1 to type 4. Based on previous research on learning styles and brain functioning using also Kolb's model.
• Gardner's Eight Types of Intelligence


  Howard Gardner (1983) developed this theory, focused on eight kinds of intelligence, which is useful in looking at styles of learning in children.
• VARK Learning Styles


  A model of learning styles
• Cone of Learning


  A model of learning
• Learning is a continuous process grounded in the reality that the learner is not a blank slate