Today’s blog was inspired by a reader who asked if I had any suggestions for learning a musical instrument over the internet. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Online Learning
How to Learn Online with Unreliable Internet
In many locations, we now take reliable access to the internet for granted. We can take online courses and watch high-definition videos on a computer or even our mobile phone. If the connection drops out or there is a power blackout, it is an irritation.
What about regions or countries where reliable internet access or electricity is unavailable? Can people still learn online? Here are some ways that may help you manage in these difficult circumstances. Continue reading
How to Make the Most of Class Central
Readers of past posts here on Online Learning Success may have seen the links to my in-depth course reviews on Class Central, which is a search engine and review site for online courses popularly known as MOOCs Continue reading
6 Reasons for not Completing an Online Course
Have you started an online course (or perhaps more than one) but a few weeks later it has come to a complete halt?
There could be a number of reasons for this and also several strategies to overcome the block. You need to look at your individual situation before deciding the best way forward. Continue reading
Learning Online with Khan Academy
Many blogs here at Online Learning Success have discussed online courses. What if you would like help with learning a specific topic, but don’t want to commit to a whole course? For instance, you want to know about square roots in mathematics. Or why World War One started. Or how plants make their own food by photosynthesis.
Enter Khan Academy.
Amber’s Story: the Advantages of Online Learning
Amber* is a Civil Engineer, working in Marine Structure Design, who combines part-time work with mothering her two small children. She completed her Bachelor degree as a full-time, on-campus student and has also studied a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) and several post-graduate university subjects externally. Continue reading
Moons: a Review of the Course
Are you old enough to have seen the first Moon landing in 1969? I was crowded into my school library with more than a hundred excited schoolmates to watch the flickering images on the television. Continue reading
Learn Faster by Training Your Brain to Focus
In today’s world, we are increasingly bombarded with distractions. Recent studies have shown that it can take more than 20 minutes to return productively to an interrupted task. Continue reading
Make the Most of Learning Later in Life
When I retired from paid work in 2012, I thought I would be doing plenty of gardening, some handcrafts and reading. I also had visions of my house sparkling and tidy.
Five years on, most of the garden is again a wilderness and craft time is limited to crochet in front of the television in the evenings. As for that clean and tidy house, the less said, the better. Instead, I have spent many retirement hours completing 90 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and setting up my own blog. Continue reading
12 of My Favourite Courses
Thank you to those who have already responded to the survey announced last week.
The survey is open until January 31 and I would love to hear your thoughts about Online Learning Success. Please remember to include your name and email if you wish to be in the draw for a set of four hand-crochet bookmarks. Click here to enter the survey.
One survey respondent asked for a list of my favourite courses. Continue reading