Howard Gardner`s Multiple Intelligences

The VAK learning styles model provides a very easy and quick reference inventory by which to assess people`s preferred learning styles, and then most importantly, to design learning methods and experiences that match people`s preferences:

Visual learning style involves the use of seen or observed things, including pictures, diagrams, demonstrations, displays, handouts, films, flip-chart, etc.

Auditory learning style involves the transfer of information through listening: to the spoken word, of self or others, of sounds and noises.

Kinesthetic learning involves physical experience - touching, feeling, holding, doing, practical hands-on experiences.

The word `kinesthetic` describes the sense of using muscular movement - physical sense in other words. Kinesthesia and kinesthesis are root words, derived from the Greek kineo, meaning move, and aisthesis, meaning sensation. Kinesthetic therefore describes a learning style which involves the stimulation of nerves in the body`s muscles, joints and tendons. This relates to the colloquial expression `touchy-feely`.

It is easy to begin to assess your own or another person`s learning style within the Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic model.