Online Study Skills and Managing Time

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Study Challenges

Studying is essential to any educational endeavor, but the online learning environment presents some unique studying challenges that you might not face in a traditional classroom environment. This means that in order to excel in your online class, you'll need to make sure your study skills are top notch!

Discipline, responsibility, motivation—these are characteristics that all students need in order to get the most they can out of their classes. But online students sometimes face additional challenges because of the degree of independence that the online learning system grants them. This is why it's so important for you to be able to honestly and effectively assess your own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to your study skills and habits, and to develop a process for yourself that will enable you to be most effective.

We've created this module on study skills and time management to help you identify your tendencies and habits, and provide you with strategies for improvement.

After completing this module, we want you to know:

  • Why creating and sticking to a study schedule can be even more essential to an online course than a course taught on campus.
  • Factors to consider when developing a study schedule.
  • Why "cramming" for an exam or assignment doesn't really work.
  • How to stay motivated to complete your online course.

Step 1 - Time Management

We've broken things down for you into 3 easy steps, so let' s go through them one at a time.

Step 1: Identify your time management style

One of the first things you'll want to do is to identify how you manage your time, we've created the following 6-question quiz to help you determine your time management personality profile. Keep in mind that your responses should reflect what you probably would do in a given situation, not what you think is the "right" answer.

To get started click on the blue START button below. Once you've completed the quiz, click on the Next button at the bottom of the page.

 

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