Learning Styles and Visual Literacy for Learning and Performance

Identifying students’ learning styles has been found to be a significant factor for planning effective instruction. Also, visuals have been proven to be a learning enhancer if it is connected to the learning styles. The aim of this paper is to address some of the fundamental questions about learning styles and visual literacy for learning and performance. Questions including how people learn; what are the learning styles, and how it is determined. It also focuses on how visuals can be connected to the learning styles including multiple intelligences of individuals with learning disabilities such as agenesis of the corpus callosum. It also differentiates between visuals for learning and performance. Some of the visual and learning theories, along with instructional and graphic design models will also be introduced and discussed.