What are the instructional benefits of knowing the learning styles of your students? How can this knowledge be used to help you be a more effective instructor? The benefits would be that by having a mixture of learning styles, you are able to teach every student and how they learn. Some students may have learning styles that overlap, so by having different styles you are helping them learn in more ways than one. The knowledge can be used to motivate an instructor to develop new course content intiatives. It also helps to keep you on your toes and keeps you interested in your course.