Plain English Meaning

He is the educator who created the learning-styles model the FAA references when it talks about identifying how individual students prefer to learn.

Full Definition

Richard Felder is an American engineering educator and emeritus professor at North Carolina State University who, with Linda Silverman, developed the Index of Learning Styles (ILS) — a model that describes how learners take in and process information across four dimensions: active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, and sequential/global. His work is referenced in the Aviation Instructor's Handbook as one of the recognized frameworks instructors can use to identify learner preferences and adapt their teaching accordingly.

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Seen in the ’s on , where are learning how to recognize and support different student learning preferences.