Reddit reviews e-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning

> Learners don't have a preferred style. The theory was co-opted and now everyone has identified as a visual learner.

Many learners have preferred style. However, there are two problems:

1. Learners are ill-equipped to evaluate how they learn best. They may think they learn best in a certain style (and thereby prefer it), but in actuality, they don't.
   
2. Research has demonstrated that people learn best when material is presented in multiple modes so that you learn by seeing, hearing, and doing, not just one of the above. Clark and Mayer have an excellent book that summaries the literature on how to construct effective multimedia lessons (with emphasis on multi).

People have already gave some great suggestions. A couple of books you may like:

• Design for the Way People Learn by Julie Dirkson
  
  
• E-Learning and the Science of Instruction by Clark and Meyer / kind of the "textbook" for e-learning instructional design