Application of Learning Styles in Technical Education: Meta-Learning Perception

Abstract

The idea of meta-learning describes the state of 'being aware of and taking control of one's own learning' while learning styles address the ways students perceive and process new information. This paper explores the perception in which meta-learning involving students' learning styles. An evolved conception is proposed in which meta-learning is a sub-concept within metacognition and self-regulation. It is professed as a kind of creativity that is best displayed by proactive self-regulators for whom deliberate self-regulated learning is a way of life. This perception of meta-learning is dependable with the 'awareness' and 'taking control of" elements of Biggs' original definition. The application of learning styles in conjunction with meta-learning concept is to help students of technical education to connect thinking about their own learning styles in order to achieve smooth learning processes.