If I am devising a resource-based learning to go on second life so thousands of learners can access the information. It may be reasonable to produce different versions for all learning styles. But this is a real world, and real time. Learning styles theory is an academic luxury, students not only have rights but also reponsibilities. You can't tune in to all of them, so they have to tune in to you. Paying attention to learning styles may be doing the students a disservice. They will benefit more from adapting and becoming versatile and be able to respond to different learning styles.
http://deoracle.org/online-pedagogy/emerging-technologies
http://doceo.co.uk/heterodoxy/styles
I think this is very interesting - and very controversial. Generally our initial approach is to try to meet all students' needs, but in practice we have limited space, time and money so students have to use what we eventually decide to provide (or want to try). In the workplace you will often have little choice about how you are expected to do the job so maybe encouraging students to adapt to our teaching approach is no bad thing, making them more adaptable and flexible - so long as they do learn in the end.
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