If you're considering an online degree program, it is a good idea to check how different learning styles work. This may help you to make a more informed decision about online learning. The tuition methods in online classes are completely different from conventional classes. Therefore a good understanding of the online learning process should be a part of your decision-making process. This knowledge can also help you to improve your study habits and be more successful in any conventional or online educational setting, no matter what type of learner you happen to be.
The main three learning styles are visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. People mostly learn by:
- Speaking (auditory)
- Doing (kinesthetic)
- Reading (visual)
- Listening (auditory)
- Seeing (visual)
Reading, listening and seeing are considered passive methods of learning, while the first two ways are considered active. We remember more or less information depending of the type of learning we happen to be better at. We normally learn via a combination of the various types described, but environment influence also plays a part in our learning process
Passive Learning
Passive learning generates less retention than active learning. A combination of listening and seeing generates good retention, but less efficient than speaking. After this combination comes listening, then seeing and finally reading (in terms of how effective each method is to fix information in our memory).
Active Learning
As far as the learning environment is good, most humans tend to remember better what they have practised in reality (done). Secondarily, a combination of doing and speaking will also be very effective, followed by speaking only. All this active ways of learning are more effective than passive learning.
Online degree Learning: Passive and Active combined
In an online degree class there is passive learning (text-reading, audio-clips, graphics, etcetera), and yet the active mode is also there via writing, emails and chat. Online degree learners are normally self-directed or working in the fields they choose, and therefore a lot of active learning happens by simply applying their newly learnt knowledge to their workplaces, hobbies or homes. This is why so many online learners get surprised that they learn more in online classes than conventional education, and develop a better retention.
If you're considering online learning, you should realize that everyone learns in a different way and then attempt to learn in the way best fitting you. You can increase your online learning to the maximum by choosing courses suited to your learning styles.
Types of e-Learning:
Electronic Learning may come in many different types within your online degree program, and will normally combine several of them:
- Just online (no meetings available)
- Mixture of online and face-to-face meetings
- Synchronous learning (videoconference, chat…)
- Asynchronous learning (emails, files, forums, blogs…)
- Online community (class) led by an instructor
- Self-study method
- Self-study method with a subject matter expert
- Fully website-based
- CD-ROM-based
- Method based on audio and video files or CD's.
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