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Learning Styles and Inclusion
Before we dig deeper into how we can better reach well over a third of our audience who is likely to experience issues with our content and delivery due to disabilities, ageing, or limiting conditions, we need to establish a few key concepts about how people learn. It’s easy to be misled into thinking that people all learn the same way. To believe that there is one recipe that appeals to everyone. Or that by applying it, you will become a successful and engaging communicator overnight.
Behavioural psychology, the study of the connection between our minds and our behaviour, has been looking into the different ways in which people learn for decades. We’ve come a long way since then in understanding how we can influence people into learning what it is that we want or need to teach them.
This post will introduce you to some of the basics and give you a few ideas as to how you can leverage these principles yourself. But don’t you worry! We won’t get into any of the boring mumbo-jumbo they teach in psychology class! Let’s just focus on basic principles that will allow us to build the foundations necessary to understand how we can apply strategies for inclusion in the way we create and deliver our materials.
