Learning Theories Gone Wild - Urban Myths that Hurt Your Learning Designs
Learning styles, Dale's Cone of Experience, the forgetting curve, and "learners know best": myths to disregard
Exploring Learning Styles: does an understanding of them make us better able to design learning? | Julian Stodd's Learning Blog
Summary of a LinkedIn discussion on the value of learning styles for instructional design
#LearningStyles ‘Awareness’ Day: Collected Resources | David Kelly
A number of resources and posts related to the March 1, 2012 Learning Styles Awareness Day
Big Dog, Little Dog: Learning Styles are for the individual, not group
Interesting and thoughtful response to the eLearn Magazine article "Why Is the Research on Learning Styles Still Being Dismissed by Some Learning Leaders and Practitioners" by Guy Wallace. Donald ultimately agrees with the idea that instructional designers don't need to spend their time worrying about learning styles, but people who work with individual learners may find them valuable.
That is, when you analyze a group, the findings often suggest that learning styles are relative unimportant, however, when you look at an individual, then the learning style often distinguishes itself as a key component of being able to learn or not.
Thus the main take-away that I get from the paper if that if you are an instructor, manager, etc. who has to help the individual learners, then learning styles make sense. On the other hand, if you are an instructional designer or someone who directs her or his efforts at the group, then learning styles are probably not that important.
elearn Magazine: Why Is the Research on Learning Styles Still Being Dismissed by Some Learning Leaders and Practitioners?
Comments from a number of experts dismissing learning styles, plus discussion on why we still talk about learning styles even though the research doesn't support it