What preferences help learners for distance or online learning?
All the VARK preferences can be used for all delivery methods. Learners have four preferences not one. They differ in strength and usage but they are not discrete. A researcher will not find that those who succeed with class lectures are Auditory learners or that all sports people are Kinesthetic. Regardless of our VARK scores we use our four modes in combination so a unimodal presentation or research design is neither possible nor helpful. Learners are adept at using their preferred modes to adapt incoming messages to suit their strategies. When they have a zero VARK preference for Auditory they can still attend lectures, talks, debates and discussions and get some learning from those delivery methods. It is just not their preference! In the same way that they can eat pineapples but prefer kiwifruit. They translate/transform the less-desired input.
