Learning style theories:
1. Social Interaction Models
2. Information Processing Models
3. Personality Models
    (O'Connor)

      Social Interaction Models
Any web delivery system...threaded discussion, online
notes, chat rooms

     Information Processing Models
Kolb
Concrete experience (labs, field work)
reflective observation (logs, brainstorming)
abstract conceptualization (lectures, analogies)
active experimentation (simulations, homework)

Gardner's Multiple Intelligences
verbal/linguistic
logical/mathematical
visual/spatial
music/rhythmic
body/kinesthetic

     Personality Models
Myers-Briggs Type Indicators
Analytic learner
   Break information down bit by bit and arrange logically
Global learners
   Cluster information into wholes, impatient with minutiae and willing to jump
between ideas

Retention Rates
http://www.cofc.edu/bellsandwhistles/research/retentionmodel.html

A model of how technological applications, when combined with recognititon of learning styles, may influence retention rates.