Talia Carbis has an interesting blog with lots of resources for those who use Moodle.
In one of his many interesting posts, Talia explains how e-learning can be successfully used in the classroom. In class, not only to learn at a distance, as is the term e-learning is often translated. Talia
The argument that gives such opportunity (which I will not mention, just go to his site and are here), is based on something that I so often, and I think not only me, I forget: each person learns differently. If you read the post, you realize that Carbis thinks and writes in terms of people who learn visually, auditory, kinesthetic ... On the basis, ie, a classification of some of their theories, which speak of three main styles: visual, phonetic and the kinesthetic.
Beyond the theories, which I think in this area leave enough time to find, in the sense that every author has their own, often competing, or not fully harmonized with those of close study, I believe that attention cognitive and learning styles of our students is a concern which rarely make the effort to have, and instead save our students, and then to ourselves, but we do that so much effort in their daily work.
That said, I think Talia is right: the multimedia potential of the Internet and e-learning can be useful for any cognitive style and facilitate the work of all, if used well. The problem is, as usual, to get used ...
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