Reviewing common study skills helps Columbus students to succeed in online learning

Reviewing common study skills helps Columbus students to succeed in online learning. 

Asynchronous online courses are popular with motivated students.  They are courses without short-term time limits.  Serious students like them because work in the courses is assigned in sections, and they can complete each part within a specified time, not put off coursework indefinitely.  With asynchronous courses, less chance exists for procrastination (http://amzn.to/c3qJnJ).

Students must still note the time required to complete each section of the course, and then schedule it around other important activities in their lives.

Additionally, any lack of experience with taking courses online, keyboarding or reading comprehension may slow them down, so students need to improve any deficiencies in those areas before taking any online course (http://amzn.to/c3qJnJ).  

As for all school preparation, students must remember to take time and do everything they would normally do for any class.  For example, he or she must set up a study space free of disruptions.  (If there is noise, one excellent reminder is to run a fan and drown it out).  Preparation like this helps the student and others present to take the study effort seriously (http://amzn.to/c3qJnJ).

Common sense should prevail.  Two important suggestions that pros make are (1) to read carefully all announcements, and (2) to be prepared to write down all information as it is spoken or written online, just to avoid the stress of losing data should the connection fail (http://amzn.to/c3qJnJ).

Online Education for Dummies says to begin work at peak efficiency, and to check out unfamiliar on-site items like submit buttons and drop boxes for depositing the all-important homework (http://amzn.to/dCheJJ).  

For dealing with course content, the following suggestions are not new, but they may feel new because the assignments are online (http://amzn.to/dCheJJ):

• Read instructions carefully.  For example, they say, do not begin writing a dissertation if the professor asks for a 500-word piece.

• Be clear, original and above all, honest, in your use of sources, if writing anything factual.

• Check your work.  Yes, you know how to divide polynomials, but do not make careless mistakes when doing so (http://amzn.to/dCheJJ).

Adult Basic and Literacy Education teaches a course locally: "Individual Excellence: Master twelve career-enhancing skills including goal setting, time management, personal organization, and creativity." 

For more information, please contact North Education Center, 100 Arcadia Avenue, Columbus, OH 43202 (614) 365-5245 (http://bit.ly/9yvirZ).