Learning Styles Instructional-Design Challenge. I will give $1000 (US dollars) to the first person or group who can prove that taking learning styles into account in designing instruction can produce meaningful learning benefits. I've been suspicious about the learning-styles bandwagon for many years. The learning-style argument has gone something like this: If instructional designers know the learning style of their learners, they can develop material specifically to help those learners, and such extra efforts are worth the trouble.
I have my doubts, but am open to being proven wrong. Here's the criteria for my Learning-Styles Instructional-Design Challenge: The learning program must diagnose learners' learning styles. To reiterate, the challenge is this: Can an e-learning program that utilizes learning-style information outperform an e-learning program that doesn't utilize such information by 10% or more on a realistic test of learning, even it is allowed to cost up to twice as much to build? IDEAS: Instructional Design for Elearning ApproacheS.