Strategies for Online Learning—Week 1, Assignment 3
Using the information you gained from the ILS learning preferences questionnaire, describe some ways that you can benefit from knowing your types (active or passive; sensing or intuitive; visual or verbal; sequential or global) and how you might apply these to enhance your online learning success.
My scores showed that I favor reflective, sensing, visual, and sequential learning styles. To best learn in my courses, I should: stop to reflect on what I’ve read; try to relate subjects to the real world; find diagrams, sketches, schematics, photographs, flow charts, or any other visual representation of course material; and outlining lecture material in a logical order.
List at least TWO habits that you feel have helped you or will help you in your scholastic and professional career and TWO habits that you feel have or might have hindered your advancement.
Helpful habits:
- Putting all assignments in a calendar
- Listing resources while I study and write rather than trying to remember them after I’m done
Harmful habits:
- Not starting assignments before their due date
- Easily getting distracted
Discuss how you will go about changing your “hindering habits” in the coming weeks. Be specific in your description of past experiences in changing habits or in your plans to change hindering habits.
I can start on my assignments before the day they are due. Also, go somewhere my studies will not be interrupted. This can be my office instead of the living room couch.
How does knowing more about your learning preferences from your results on the ILS support your helpful habits and/or help you overcome hindering habits?
Putting all of my assignments on a calendar helps me to visually see what assignments will soon be due. It helps me to prioritize my work load. Sequentially listing my sources at the bottom of a document I’m working is easier for me, as a sequential learner, than trying to list them after I’ve completed my work.
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