In schools these days educators have spent a lot of time assessing students’ learning styles and designing lessons around them.

Educators have spent equal time trying to assess teaching styles.  

If a student is less effective participating in a non-preferred learning style, surely a teacher is less effective using a non-preferred teaching style.

The idea goes that if a student particularly enjoys the teaching method being used he/she will comprehend more because he/she will be more engaged and focused.  In other words, pay attention.  This seems to be an idea that is utterly forgotten after high school by both teachers and learners in other facets of the community.  

Once time becomes money people want information in a format that takes as little time as possible.

When was the last time you attended a community meeting in which people were divided into like-minded groups and asked to develop recommendations for the board, commissioners, or aldermen?  

Although a lot of churches have varying worship services, the main delivery is still the sermon, being read to, or round robin reading.

I’m not sure how else to do it.  Maybe that is why it has not changed much in the last 2000 years.  Who is really willing to spend the time necessary each week to conduct church in various learning styles?  The varying services of a liturgical church probably come the closest to meeting the mark.

Lecture methods are used most often for information dissemination because it takes less time.  

The podcast is still preferred over the written blog.  

When it comes to learning there is a difference between information dissemination and acquiring a skill. 

In the adult world where time is money, most people have more than one preferred learning style.  Visual and auditory will do for basic information, but kinesthetic is preferred for acquiring a skill.

The next time you attend a gathering for any purpose think about alternative ways it could be done.