Concrete Global (CG) Style 
If you have a Concrete perceptual style, your brain relates primarily to real objects, emotions, events, colors, and sounds and stores memories around these "building blocks;" for example, you would more easily remember holding or eating an apple rather than reading the word apple or seeing a picture of an apple. With a Global organizational style, you are highly intuitive and can often connect seemingly-unrelated ideas and segments of information. You focus on the "big picture" rather than details and use a "free association" structure to store thoughts.
Concrete Global learners often prefer:
- Experimenting with different options to see what happens.
- Thinking inductively while working with real-world problems.
- Looking for different ways to learn, work, and create.
- Working on more than one project at a time.
- Leaving projects half-done until getting an insight about how to finish.
- Having lots of variety — bored with repetition.
Learning Online and Your Concrete Global Style
You probably like to know how things work, but not all of the details. Following specific directions or instructions may annoy you, and you like to discover what you need to know on your own. Because online learning is often more theoretical than practical, you may find it challenging. Online courses that are very practical and allow for open-ended responses rather than one "right" answer are a match for your style.
Suggestions:
- Click on all the buttons and explore what's in the course.
- Look at the site map.
- Navigate through the online course randomly rather than step-by-step.
- Experiment with making various types of entries to see what happens.
- Think of ways to make the information immediately applicable for you.
- Ask your instructor to supplement information with concrete examples.
- If you have a technical problem, you may be most comfortable playing around on the computer until you find an answer.