ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some practical strategies all instructors can use to reach the spectrum of learning modes but at the same time with the awareness that one cannot tailor learning to individual students. It examines practical approaches for addressing all types of learning styles. As one work to incorporate activities aimed at different learning preferences into their course, they will benefit from their previous efforts at prioritizing learning goals, coordinating assessments with those goals, and designing the course structure around the desired outcomes. Kolb formulated a 'learning styles inventory' in which individuals may discover their preferred mode of learning, and he created a typology of the four different learning styles that constitute the cycle of experiential learning. The four different styles are diverging style, assimilating style, converging style, accommodating style. Active learning approaches make sense in a communication classroom where dialogic, communal models of teaching are becoming more familiar.
