After the success of Understanding Dementia and Preventing Dementia, the University of Tasmania has come up with another excellent non-technical medical course, Understanding Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
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Book Review – Your Happy First Draft
A few months ago, I reviewed a book about dance and how it related to online learning. Today’s book is even more relevant to online learning. Courses may include writing and sharing comments, paragraphs, and essays.
Continue readingReviews of Three Free Short Courses
I ended my last post by saying I was taking some time away from online learning and blogging. My husband and I had a lovely road trip to north Queensland during which we spent many hours in the car, took hundreds of photos, and soaked up the tropical winter temperatures. I took a break from online courses and writing, which meant that when we returned home, I had no post ready for last week.
Oh, crumbs.
Rather than churn out a hurried post, I decided to take an extra week to collect my thoughts.
Which meant that now I had one week to think of a topic, research it, and write about my findings. While, of course, dealing with all the catch-up tasks that inevitably accumulated while we were away. Not to mention a brain that wanted to stay in relaxed holiday mode.
What to do? I had recently taken a few free very short courses and discovered some others, so here is an overview of three courses.
Continue readingImproving Your Study Techniques: a Review of the Course
I have taken several online courses about learning in the last few years. Some have been interesting and inspiring. Others have been less memorable.
I am happy to say Improving Your Study Techniques is definitely worthwhile taking if you want to make the most of your study time, whether online or as an on-campus student. Presented by Maple Hupkens and Anne-Miek Hermsen of the University of Groningen (Netherlands), each of the four weeks brought new material to help with organisation, prepare the brain for study, learn the work, and revise effectively to prepare for exams. Techniques for dealing with procrastination, stress and keeping motivated are also covered.
Continue readingCXL Google Analytics: a Review of the Course
If you have a website or blog, chances are you have looked at Google Analytics.
It can be exciting looking at the page views and how many readers use desktop or mobiles. There’s even a map of the world showing where your audience is.
But however fascinating it can be to see which are the most popular pages, how useful are all these numbers, graphs and charts really?
How can we use Analytics to build up our audience or, for a commercial site, increase sales?
Continue readingBasic Life Support and Automated External Defibrillation: A Review of the Course
Released by Stepik in February 2019, this free short course teaches the basics of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). It achieves its stated aim of educating the layperson in CPR so they might have some confidence to attempt it if they ever witness a cardiac arrest. The victim then has a better chance of surviving until medical assistance arrives. So far, 104 people have signed up for this course.
Continue readingWriting in English for University Study: a Review of the Program
What is a Program?
Several MOOC providers have introduced
Learning How to Learn for Youth: a Review of the Course
Readers of Online Learning Success may already know I am a big fan of Learning How to Learn, an online course created by Barbara Oakley and Terrence Sejnowski. The same instructors are behind Mindshift, another encouraging course created to help people take the plunge into new careers.
I was excited in early December to discover Learning How to Learn for Youth, a new offering from Drs Oakley and Sejnowski, alongside Gregory Hammons. Motivational speaker is just one of Hammons’ talents, and his enthusiastic style fits in beautifully with the other presenters.
Continue readingFinal Comic Book Course Review
Regular readers of this blog will recall that in early October I was part-way through How to Make a Comic Book, made by the High Tech High Graduate School of Education and available on the Coursera platform. Continue reading
Probability: Basic Concepts & Discrete Random Variables: a Review of the Course
Thank you to Karen Carlson for allowing me to republish her review of this course. Continue reading