Improving Your Learning Skills

Course Overview

The course begins by exploring and identifying your reasons for taking on a particular course of study and encourages you to think of your strengths and needs as a learner. You will review different types of learning style and what learning style you are best suited to.

Pre-requisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Support & Benefits

This Study Skills course in unsupported.  The course contains activities to reinforce the learning throughout, everything you need to succeed is contained within the study materials, and as the materials have been developed specifically for return learners the study materials are user friendly and self explanatory.

Course Code

D36

Key Topics

• Reviews the skills in planning your time and identifying when and where is best to study
• Establishes different techniques for reading with an explanation of the SQ3R approach
• Develops skills for effective note taking along with useful strategies for filing your notes
• Also provides a focus on preparation for planning and writing an assignment
• Considers different types of assessment that you may encounter across your study path
• Deals with three main types of assessment – written, competency-based and multiple-choice

Assessment

The course contains no formal assessment as its purpose is to gradually reintroduce return learners to study without pressure.  This course includes a number of activities so the student can apply the theory learned and monitor their own progress.  The purpose of the course is to generate confidence in your existing skills rather than test you on acquiring new skills.