The Active/Sensory Combination

• There are many combinations of learning styles. Active sensory learning style has some general characteristics that hold regardless of how it is paired. People with active learning styles prefer to learn by doing rather than by being lectured. People with sensory learning styles prefer hands-on subject matter rather than abstract subject matter. People with a combination of active and sensory learning styles prefer active, hands-on learning.
  
  

Visual Vs. Verbal

• The visual/verbal learning style axis represents the range of preferences for visual or verbal learning. Visual learners learn best through diagrams, charts and graphics. Verbal learners learn best through written and spoken descriptions. Active sensory learners with a visual leaning prefer to learn through methods that involve hands-on, visual material. These people may be good at learning arts and crafts. Active sensory verbal learners like to learn hands-on, verbal material by themselves. These people may prefer performance art and be good at acting.
  
  

Sequential Vs. Global

• The sequential versus global axis represents the range of preferences for step-by-step or holistic learning methods. Sequential learners prefer to follow a set curricular agenda, while global learners prefer to take in and explore all the general concepts in a free-form fashion. Active sensory sequential learners tend to think like engineers, who assemble design blueprints in a step by step format. Active sensory global learners tend to think more like visual artists, who work on visual patterns by following a more open and creative thought process.
  
  

Combinations.

• Felder and Silverman's learning style axes are continual rather than binary. That is to say, no one is perfectly active or sensory as a learner, you are relatively active or sensory. Thus, there are more than just eight possible combinations of active sensory styles. There are an infinite combination of active sensory learning styles. For example, a person who is 80 percent active/20 percent reflective, 90 percent sensory/10 percent intuitive, 51 percent visual/49 percent verbal, 40 percent global/60 percent sequential, will be different from a person who leans in the same direction on each axis, but with different specific percentages.