Learning Strategies

Individual learning strategies, learning strategies are effective means for a person may not be effective for others. To obtain an effective learning strategy, one needs to know the set of concepts that will take him find the most effective learning strategies for themselves.

The concept of independent learning
Recognizing that the relationship between teachers with him still there, but the relationship is represented by the media teaching materials or learning.
Knowing the concept of independent learning.
Knowing when to ask for help when he needs help / support.
Know to whom and from where he can get help / support.

Media study
Know when he needs to use the media to learn.
Realizing that he must know how to use the media to learn independently.

Learning strategies
Knowing the range of effective learning strategies

Independent learning does not mean learning alone. Often people misunderstand the meaning of self-learning as learning itself. Meaning errors occurred because in general they are studying at university or university branch open. tend to learn on their own without a tutor or classmates. Self-learning means learning to take the initiative, with or without the help of others, in the study.
As an independent student, you do not have to know all things. You are also not expected to be a genius student who does not need help from others. One of the principle of self-learning is that you can know when you need help or support of other parties. Understanding includes knowing when you need to meet other students, study groups, the board of administration at the college, tutors, or even a neighbor who lectures at other universities. Assistance / support activities can be motivating each other to learn, for example, chatting with neighbors who are studying at another university, can often motivate us to study hard. Assistance / support can also mean dictionary, a book supporting literature, the case of newspapers, radio or television news, library, tutorial information on schedules, and other things that do not relate to people.
Most importantly you are able to identify the sources of information. Identify the source of this information is needed to facilitate your learning when you need help or support.
Media study
One of the main characteristics of distance learning is the use of learning media. Media major study at the university is holding an open or print materials, known as the module module. Each medium has its advantages and disadvantages. You can choose which media are appropriate to support your learning. Effective Learning with Media Click to learn more about the media studied. On that topic, you will find information on tips to maximize the use of media for the sake of learning
The use of media for the purpose of this study is also one form of learning strategies. For example, audio media will be very helpful for people who have a learning style "auditory". More detailed explanation of learning styles you can get on the topic of Identifying Learning Styles.
The use of media for learning is often regarded as strange as unusual for those accustomed to face-to-face learning. In the process of distance learning, use of media is not something strange. As a student at Universita open. what if you try to learn to recognize the media provided an open university? Who knows you will find it easier to learn through the media support? Who knows, too, support media can be an effective learning strategy for you?

Effective Learning Strategies
The existence of physical distance between teachers and students, teachers make some functions do not play a role, such as the function of teachers in providing teaching materials during lectures or teaching function in disciplining students for upper division courses. Teaching functions such that there is no effective learning systems, so it should be handled by the intelligent student through learning strategies. For example, you must be clever to make a schedule for reading materials, through a module or other media, as a way to communicate with teachers. Representing teachers as teaching materials teaching materials teaching is the result of thought. You also have to anticipate the self-discipline to carry out the schedule that you have created. If the average student should be disciplined to go to college, then you can plan for the same amount of time used to read the module. You are actually lucky to be able to study anywhere. You have to do is to determine when it disciplined learning.
Plan a strategy to learn a specific skill that students need to develop effective learning. As a smart student, you can not use face-to-face learning habits to succeed. If you take your study habits to-face learning in an effective learning system, then you will experience difficulties. For example, you may be too busy working that I forget to learn. You can also get stuck in routine activities at home such as child care, social gathering, meeting families, so you are not skilled to anticipate your study time. In distance learning, no one (teacher / lecturer) that helps you to remind you or tell you to learn other than yourself. Only you can trigger and accelerate your learning process.
Study habits are not easy to replace face to face just like that. Therefore, independent and intelligent students need to learn about the special skills that can help you to learn about how to learn. By studying a variety of specialized skills in this study, then you will be able to anticipate learning in effective learning systems, such as the Open University.