There are many students and each one of them learns in an unique way. There are many different kinds of learning with which students can be taught, some of them are listed below:

Face to Face
Face to face is the most traditional form of delivering education, and the one with which people will have had direct experience since mainstream schooling throughout the worls is taught in this way. Face-to-Face education is teaching and learning where a significant component requires the presence of both learner and tutor in the same physical space at the same time. The definition includes such activities as lectures, demonstrations, tutorials, presentations and seminars. It is likely that a course delivered primarily face to face will also have some elements that involve independent study, such as supplementary reading, research and writing of assignments. As a general rule as learners mature, and as their study skills become more sophisticated, the ratio of independent to classroom-based study increases. However, tutors and students are not likely to be based very far apart geographically and regular timetabled meetings between tutor and student allow learners to access support as they need it. So this would still fall within the definition of Face to Face education.

Open Learning
Open learning has been developed in recent years to allow learners more flexibility than they would normally encoutner in a face-to-face course. Learners attend some sort of learning centre at times that suit them and work through course materials at their own pace. They will still meet up with a tutor, perhaps on a regular basis or perhaps on request, and may have access to additional support whilst in the learning centre. Open learning has often been used to enable learners to develop core skills such as literacy and numeracy, information technology and study skills.

Traditional Distance Education
This term is used to describe teaching and learning situations where the significant component does not require the presence of both learner and tutor in the same physical space at the same time. For the most part the time, pace and location of the learning is determined by the learner. The teaching is delivered using correspondence, books and other paper-based materials, increasingly supplemented by audio-visual materials such as video and TV, and by radio. Indeed there may be some element of computer-enhanced learning, for example in the use of CD-ROMs. It may be that occasionally events are organized that do involve a same time/same place ineraction, such as tutorials or a summer school.

Online Learning
Online learning is a kind of distance education, but it makes considerable use of information and communication technologies such as e-mail, Internet conferencing and the World Wide Web. Course materials can be mounted on to a web site. Speedy interactions can take place between tutor and learner using e-mail, and, perhaps most significantly of all, collaboration between learners can easily take place, allowing for the building of a learning community which allows learners to work and socialize together, as they would in a face-to-face course. It has been said that online learning takes the ‘distance’ out of ‘distance education’.