| Online education offers an altogether new experience | | | | 2.Practise good time management. You are not |
| of learning. So students who are used to traditional | | | | obligated to study at a certain time. Hence, you |
| brick-and-mortar education may find it hard to adapt | | | | should schedule your time wisely such that you have |
| to this new way of learning. After all, they have been | | | | the time to study and to attend to other |
| in this environment since receiving preschool | | | | commitments. Central to this is to know what time |
| education. Like everything we do, it pays to know | | | | of the day you can concentrate better. This enables |
| some of the strategies that can get us on the | | | | you to better able to assimilate what you are |
| correct direction. Below are some tips to help you | | | | studying. |
| adapt to this mode of learning and in the process | | | | 3.Make full use of the facilities offered. Such facilities |
| making the most out of it. | | | | as forums, online lecture and tutorial discussions |
| 1.Exercise discipline and determination. One key | | | | should be used to enhance your learning. You should |
| characteristic of online education is flexibility - that is, | | | | also write e-mails to your professor to clarify doubts. |
| you can study at any time you wish to. Such | | | | 4.Constantly evaluate your progress. Check how |
| flexibility may well turn out to be disadvantageous if | | | | much you have learnt and progressed in obtaining |
| you succumb to the tendency of procrastinating. | | | | your degree. This is so that you have an idea of |
| Always remind yourself that you want to finish the | | | | your performance, thereby enabling you to make a |
| study as soon as you can, although being aware that | | | | conscious effort to change your strategy should you |
| you can always be flexible in your study. | | | | find them to be ineffective. |