Elements of Online Learning
Join the Crowd!
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The financial crisis started a long time before anyone really took notice. I can remember hearing students complaining about how difficult it was to get a college loan starting at least 15-18 months ago. I didn’t pay too much attention […]
Isolation
Even in traditional settings, the majority of your time is spent outside the classroom or lab. The difference is that on campus all you have to do is look around you to find other students, distance learners have to connect to the Internet. But is the ‘isolation’ all students experience at one time or another […]
Taking Notes
I know several college professors who routinely assign 60, 80, 100 pages between lectures. When you look at those assignments objectively, between 80-90% should be nothing more than review and you can skim through that part in very short order. If you don’t remember much of it from high school or other courses, it will […]
Preparing for Exams
Preparing for the exam should begin the first day of the term; more precisely it begins while you’re reading over the course syllabus for the very first time. Doing a little bit each day as you progress through the term is the smart approach; the really hard way is to allow lame excuses to give […]
Textbook Revolution
It varies from school to school, and program to program, but several recent
articles have it that the average college student will spend around a thousand
dollars on textbooks. If that sounds like a lot of money, it’s only because you
haven’t been buying very many books lately; it’s perfectly in line with all the
other inflation provided the […]
