okay so i'm barb oakley and i've been around the
world of learning for about a decade now i think and my colleague and co-instructor olaf shewe
is he is also well into the world of learning olaf over to you my interest in learning
started when i realized that some of the best students had very good study habits and study
methods i used to think that success in learning was it was dependent on some innate ability
but then i realized that the techniques you use are even more important there's a lot of mistakes that people make but one
of the most common i think is too is that learners get the sense that learning online is very similar
to just attending a class or simply reading a book and it's it's quite different whatever you're
learning having an instructor speaking with really well put together visuals can be incredibly
helpful in allowing you to to learn more quickly being on that many learners think that watching
a video twice is the best way to learn from from the video but research shows that it's much better
to watch a video only once and then spend the same amount of time working actively with that with the
content in that video applying it thinking about it writing about it discussing it with with others
another challenge with or online learning is that since you can always postpone it until the
next day it might it might be harder to get started so to make sure that you actually succeed
with your learning it can be a good idea to carve out a little bit of time from your schedule
and perhaps set aside a little bit of time every day or every week so that you can build a
good learning habit for continuous learning we've been working really hard to put
together a course that contains the best insights for learning stemming from
neuroscience and cognitive psychology and in our course you don't only get
the technique so you're not only told what to do but also why and what happens
in the brain when you use these different techniques and this understanding will really
help you get the most out of the techniques
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