Video Short: Personality Types

This is a clip from a talk I gave in November ‘07 at Volunteer State Community College in Gallatin, Tennessee. The topic is personality types and generational learning styles and has been addressed much more fully in other venues.

The intent of this short clip is to give an illustration using real people - myself, my daughter, and my granddaughters.  The clip refers to the Myers Briggs Personalty Type Indicator and to the  Oblingers’ information on Educating the Net Generation.

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Personality Type Considerations for Online Courses

I was engaged the other day in a wonderfully philosophical conversation with Dr. George (Bob) Greene here at the College of Graduate and Professional Studies of the University of Mary Washington. We were discussing the application of personality styles to the formation of small project teams in one of his management classes.

His first class session devotes a portion to developing the theory and then having his students self select themselves into small groups based on their self identification of personality style. Surely an excellent illustration of applying a theory into practice. Bob pointed me to a wonderfully accessible book on the subject, Personality Puzzle by Littauer & Littauer.

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