A Brief Biography of Neil D. Fleming

Designer of the VARK questionnaire and associated resources.

Neil Fleming has been teaching for forty years. His full time teaching was divided between secondary, teacher education and university (Lincoln University, New Zealand) with ample recognition of his teaching and research prowess in those three sectors. For the past ten years he has been facilitating active workshops on a variety of topics in North America, Asia and Europe travelling there in spring and fall. He has been the main author of the VARK books available online at this website.. He has also been working with a group of elite sports coaches on a learning-preferences approach to coaching. His sports' clients include the Australian Institute of Sport, Victorian and South Australian Institutes of Sport, Australian Netball, All Blacks, Super 14 (Rugby), Australian Cricket, Royal Yacht Association (UK) England and Wales Cricket Board. Apart from managing the interesting contacts wih the VARK website he has frequent grandchildren duties, is learning tai chi, voluteers a day each week at a low decile elementary school, tends his collection of 80 heritage roses and makes solid wood furniture as a hobby.

A Brief Biography of Charles C Bonwell

Co-Author and contributor to VARK's development.

Charles C. Bonwell, directed Centers for Teaching and Learning at the Saint Louis College of Pharmacy (1993-1998) and Southeast Missouri State University (1990-1993). As an instructional consultant, he has facilitated over 200 workshops nationally and internationally for faculty and teaching assistants on active learning and critical thinking, and has given the keynote address at numerous regional, national, and international conferences. He is co-author of the best-selling ASHE-ERIC monograph Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom (1991).

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