Learning styles

Three learning styles exist, namely auditory, visual and tactile. The auditory earner learns by hearing and listening. The tactile learner learns by touching and doing – he needs to move, build or draw while he learns. The visual learner learns by reading or looking at pictures. He remembers things by sight. Source: http://www.educationplanner.org/students/self-assessments/learning-styles-styles.shtml)

What will a visual learner typically add to online projects?

He will typically make use of lots of images, pictures, colour, maps and other visual media.

Mind maps that use colour and pictures in place of text will be popular to “see” the big picture as well as drill down into more depth of a topic.

Systems diagrams that enable one to visualize the links between parts of a system can also be very useful.

(Source: https://www.learning-styles-online.com/style/visual-spatial/)

Research has shown the power of visual aids in eLearning. It has been found that learners respond to visual information faster than to text only materials. Visuals help learners to improve their comprehension and to remember what they have learned. About 65% of learners are visual learners.

Advantages of visual aids:

Help Store Information Longer

Images are most effective way to get information to be stored as a long-term memory.

Make Communication Quicker And Simpler

According to the Visual Teaching Alliance:

90% of information transmitted to the brain, is visual.
isuals are processed 60,000x faster than text.
Humans are capable of getting the sense of a visual scene in less than 1/10th of a second.
40% of nerve fibres are linked to the retina.
Our brain can see images that last for only 13 milliseconds.
Human eye can register 36,000 visual messages every hour.
Hence, the eLearning programs which incorporate suitable visuals gain a higher preference over the text-only ones.

Aid Better Comprehension

Visuals help learners comprehend new work easier by affecting their cognitive capabilities.

Act As Stimulators For Emotions

The same part of the human brain processes emotions and visual information. Visual stimuli and emotional responses together generate memories, and therefore also aids in remembering new concepts.

(Source: https://elearningindustry.com/visual-learning-6-reasons-visuals-powerful-aspect-elearning)