Decades of research on learning styles have resulted in widespread familiarity with the concept. Ask most students what kind of learners they are and they will often answer with a learning style descriptor—visual, verbal, kinesthetic, auditory, converger. Many will tell you they know because they've taken a learning style inventory. However, some students think that their learning style preference is not just the best way they learn, it's the only way they can learn. For instance, a student recently told a colleague of mine that he needed something other than the course texts because he was a visual learner and couldn't learn by reading.
