Testing An Experimental Universally Designed Learning Unit in a Graduate Level Online Teacher Education Course

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Testing An Experimental Universally Designed Learning Unit in a Graduate Level Online Teacher Education Course
I liked this paper partially because the survey size of 216 was substantially larger than most in our field (larger, for example, than the surveys of 24 and 38 in the same issue of JOLT) and partially because the authors were responsible enough to say "the sample size was too small to extrapolate too much from the results." Quite so. But they say, and I agree, that "having over 85% 'SJ' population within a sample of teachers" stands out. Now of course every time somebody mentions learning styles, someone else squawks that there is no evidential basis for learning styles. More...