Hi Melissa:
It seems to me that certain procrams, course, and professions can utilize sense more than others (Chef school, auto mechanics, medical).
I believe we can train all of our senses to enhance learning. The key is to learn to associate a particular sense with enjoyment, then the student is getting more benefit from their studying and classwork than if they hadn't learned to stimulate that sense.
Take reading. Visual, right? Well (with training), a student can stimulate other senses such as touch (feeling the page texture, moving their fingers along sentences, thumbing through chapters or glossary, or index). Next is smell. (the newness of the text, the smell of the ink, perhaps the scented candle burning while reading). Associate stimulation of various sense with pleasurable events. It's a proven learning technique.
The more senses involved always will improve learning outcomes. Actually, teaching others produces the greatest level of learning. So using a variety of instructional methods and involving the student will contribute more.
Regards, Barry