How to be a Successful Online Learner

The VARK Model

Find Out Your VARK Learning Style!

Click for the VARK website

Visit the VARK website and complete the questionnaire. Note that you can select multiple answers to each question, if more than one option applies. Click "ok" when finished and note your results. You can also view and download tip sheets for each of the five styles from the website.

VARK

Now that you have your results from the VARK questionnaire, take some time to interpret them.

The questionnaire places people in one of 4 categories: Visual, Auditory, Read-Write, and Kinesthetic. Do you agree with your results?

Most people who take the quiz turn out to be "multi-modal", which means a combination of the four categories above. It's important to keep in mind that, depending on the subject being studied, you may need to use a variety of study techniques throughout your academic career. Therefore, it is best to strive to be versatile, and be able to use many of the techniques described on this website.

Below is a summary of some of the study techniques that go along with each of the four styles. Select what the quiz identifies as your dominant learning style in the activity below in order to learn some useful strategies to improve your learning.