Managing Your Learning: How to Navigate Your Studies

Most students find that their greatest challenge in adjusting to college life and to succeeding in the classroom is in managing their time effectively. This is especially true for college students who often work long hours. Adult students have to shoulder family and home responsibilities. These students have little or no effective study skills on how to manage their studies. Study skills are strategies and techniques that enables you to make the most efficient and effective use of your time, resources and academic potential to achieve your desired results. Developing and enhancing your study skills can help you to make a more efficient of your study time, make your learning easier and help retain what you have learned longer and feel the work and effort involved is worthwhile. Anyone who is involved in learning can benefit from developing his or her study skills. Regardless of whether you are preparing for college, or have already started on a course of study, you can always improve your ability to learn, retain, and retrieve information. There is no one best way to learn for everyone. Some people learn their best by doing; others prefer to learn by listening or reading. Some learn best in group situations, while others learn best alone. The secret is to find the methods and techniques that work for you to achieve your ultimate goal(s). The methods and techniques suggested in this book are deliberately chosen to cover a wide variety of learning styles and preferences. You can build on techniques that support and improve your preferred styles by experimenting and adapting them. But remember that, whatever stage of learning you are at, it is always useful to practice learning in a variety of ways, experimenting with different styles of learning. This book will equip you with the techniques and skills to navigate your studies at whatever level of your learning. .