Plain English Meaning

Ricki Linksman is the educator who created the Superlinks idea, which says people learn best through a mix of how they sense information (seeing, hearing, touching, doing) and how their brain prefers to think about it (step-by-step or big-picture). The FAA mentions her work as a way for flight instructors to understand student differences.

Full Definition

Ricki Linksman is an educator and author known in aviation instruction circles as the developer of the Superlinks learning style model, which combines the four perceptual modalities (visual, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic) with the two brain-hemisphere preferences (left-brain analytical, right-brain holistic) to produce eight blended learning styles. Her work is referenced in the Aviation Instructor's Handbook as one framework instructors can use to recognize how different students take in and information.