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Online Articles:

Using Learning Styles to Adapt Technology for Higher Education
http://web.indstate.edu/ctl/styles/learning.html#STYLES
Paper by Terry O'Connor Indiana State University an housed on the Center for teaching and Learning website.

Exploring Learning Styles and Instruction
http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/EMT705/EMT705.Hood.html
Karen Hood’s paper on learning styles and instruction.

Section of articles posted to the National Teaching and Learning Forum:

• Learning Styles Can Become Learning Strategies
  http://www.ntlf.com/html/pi/9511/article1.htm
• Learning Styles
  http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/bib/88dig.htm
• Selected Resources on Teaching and Learning
  http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/bib/bib.htm

Web Sites:

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Learning Styles site
http://web.indstate.edu/ctl/styles/ls1.html
An interesting array of materials and resources including a overview of models of learning Styles based on Claxton & Murrell, Learning Styles ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report #4 (1987).

The American Education Network Corporation
http://www.aenc.org/SiteOverview-Multi-Int-FS.html
This site has information on Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences theory.

Learnactivity website
http://www.learnativity.com/learning.html
This site contains site with overview information on learning theory and learning styles.

Family Education website
http://familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,3-631,00.html
Interesting web site aimed at families and includes list of learning styles resources, books, articles etc.

Special Needs Sites

The "Learning to Learn" site:

• http://snow.utoronto.ca/Learn2/introll.html
  This is a very interesting site which includes a course, a resource, and a source of knowledge about learning, how it can be developed in children and adults, and how it differs among learners.
• http://snow.utoronto.ca/Learn2/adaptive.html
  This is a focus on Adaptive Learning Environments, and the site is designed to ensure that individuals with disabilities are able to access the information available on the site.

Learning Styles & Multiple Intelligence
http://www.ldpride.net/learningstyles.MI.htm
This site has been developed as an interactive community resource for youth and adults with learning disabilities (LD) and Attention Deficit Disorder(ADD).

Designing More Usable Documents

• http://www.trace.wisc.edu/world/doc_access/#dist-ed
  Trace Center focuses on making off-the-shelf technologies and systems like computers, the Internet, and information kiosks more accessible for everyone through the process known as universal, or accessible design. This area of their website points to a number of distance education resources, papers and articles.
• http://trace.wisc.edu/docs/quick_sheets/qs9.html#Education
  This area of The Trace Center's website lists resources and organizations related specifically to disability access in education.

National Teaching and Learning Forum (NTLF)
http://www.ntlf.com/
The forum has some information archived on learning styles.

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