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The specific aim of this research paper is to investigating the distant B.Ed. students preferred learning styles/way of learning must be taken into account in the study materials and contents connected instructional formats or design template applied in open and distance education. The research paper investigates and recognizes if students’ preferred way of learning or styles of learning are known and identified, then it would be better possible to design an appropriate context of learning. In this research study, learning style of the student produces specially the ‘enactive learning style’, ‘figural learning style’ and ‘verbal learning style’ as measured by the learning style inventory explored in 2012 by Karuna Shankar Mishra. These majorly 03 and sub 06 dimensions are applied to examine the suitableness of learning formations. 05 states have been selected randomly out of all Hindi-Belt States of India from which 05 institutions / study centers / program centers of IGNOU have been selected randomly again and total of 350 distant B.Ed. students selected as sample, answered the learning style inventory shared to them in a group form during their workshop sessions and collected data were examined and measured utilizing descriptive statistics using SPSS. The paper identifies learning styles with reference of gender in distance B.Ed. programme while recognizing the preferred 06 learning styles. The paper concludes that the achievement of open and distance education and its learners can be improved by providing learning materials, instructional designs and student support services in a manner compatible with each student’s learning style.

Learning style, Distance Learner, Gender, IGNOU