how can you adapt your personal style of learning and personality to function best in a distance learning envi

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how can you adapt your personal style of learning and personality to function best in a distance learning environment" in a distance learning environment?

Answer 1

The easiest way to adapt to a learning style is to learn how best to learn new learning styles. Every professor, class, subject combination has hurdles that are distinctly different from others.

In a distance learning course, you're going to have to be more flexible than the class, professor and subject can be. I've taken courses through telecourse and internet classes on a variety of usually technical subjects and the more traditional classes as well.
It was always easiest for me to read the course material up front and then follow through with whatever secondary contact information was provided, relying upon my recent readings and my memory of the previous encounters. When it came to practical aspects of the course, the advantages of distance courses was that the material became available on my time. If I had fourteen programming pieces or ten sections on clustering, I could tackle four of them at the same time, and stay just a little bit ahead of the basic material. The only limitations here was that I typically had to review the material shortly before the final examinations of the course which tended to be on a timed basis towards the end of the class schedule.

As a final note, watch all of the videos and try to learn the way your text and souce material structures their sentences. Tests tend to be tricks written by the authors to establish how much of their personal communication style you've absorbed. Even if you know the material and can use it, you'll be expected to regurgitate that material in the same way they chose to present it to get the best grades. If they call a widget a purple, you have to use a purple even if you learned that calling it a violet helped you to remember how to use it better.

Good luck