"Learning style" is one of those hydra-like nostrums that you can't kill and that wouldn't stay dead anyway.

Richard Clark of USC, at an ISPI conference, cited research by Richard Snow to indicate that people's preferred learning styles actually can work against learning. For example, if you're already knowledgeable about some field, you tend to prefer well-organized, concentrated information about that field... but Snow's research suggests you'll learn better in a less structured, free-form environment.

Conversely, novices to a field, who tend to prefer that free exploration, will do better with more structure.

Thalheimer has valiantly tried to lay to rest a similar deathless bundle of flapdoodle: the percentage of stuff we remember by doing (versus seeing, hearing, reading). Here's a link to a recent post that connects in turn to his initial one: http://www.willatworklearning.com/2006/12/another_guru_sh.html.