As for me, I am glad to take this class because I want to get more knowledges about technology. I am a person who do not know much information about technology. For example, my friends always talk about how the latest phones have a special function or some computer system is so fast and I can’t even join their discussion, so I find this opportunity to enhance this area of knowledges. Second, even though it is my own preference to study this courses with regard to technology, it is also necessary to learn things about technology no matter what I think, because the world is growing so fast due to the developing technology. I think, in the future, everyone should learn well to utilize them otherwise we will be out of the world trend. 

After reading this week’s article, I get a clear understanding of how to become successful in online class. Like we should stay motivated, create a safe place for studies and know how to ask for help, etc. (Littlefield, 2019). Also, I get the definition of e-learning, which is defined as: any form of Learning that utilizes a network for delivery, interaction, or facilitation.(Long, 2004). Finally, I know the myths of online education which are some bad thoughts for taking online course. For example, “ I Am Online All The Time: This Will Be Easy.” (Globokar, 2010) . I took online course before and I know it is truly wrong. In some extent, online course made me more time and they are more difficult than some of the traditional course. Thus, by reading these articles, I have gained a lot of tips to learn this course well and I will try my best to apply the knowledges I will learn from this course. 

References

Globokar, J. L. (2010). Debunking the Myths of Online Education. In J. L. Globokar (Eds.), Introduction to online learning: A guide for students (pp. 1-14). Thousand Oaks: SAGE. 

Littlefield, J. (2019). How to Be a Successful Online Student. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/ways-to-be-a-successful-online-student-1098013.

Long, H. B. (2004). E-learning: An Introduction. In G. M. Piskurich (Ed.), Getting the most from online learning: A learner’s guide (pp. 7-23). San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons.

I want to be a successful business man because I dreamed about working in wall street and loved the circumstance that business brings me. By achieving this, I should get a high GPA and find a good internship or recommendation letter from a finance professor. All of these are just the prerequisites to become a business graduate student. So what really important is more practical skills in the society. But, the prerequisite is the stepping stone of entering into the business world. Thus, it is a challenge for me now to get these three things: gpa, internship and the letter. 

To overcome these challenges, I should balance my entertaining and study because the most important things for me now is that the time management. So, after reading “ SMART”, I think  can make a planner for each things I should do in one days at specific time, which can remind me of is the time do study or have a rest. And also, I can change my focus from general to specific. ( Chastain, 2012) . Because I always to things together not specific which slow down my studying efficiency. Moreover, as for a business major students, there are a lot of things and knowledges need us to learn outside the class. So I should use “relevant” from SMART. By reminding me which information is worth to learn or collect and which is waste of time, it can really improve my analysis of information categorization. 

Finally, I think I am person who do not have any time management before I take this class. And the self-assessment accurate represent my self. I think I should improve more and learn more things by this class. 

So, firstly from Sarah’s case, I leaned that balancing time with study is significantly important. Also, having a correct understanding of the online course is very necessary, because there are too many resources we can use to make us learning better. Specifically, we should  learn to communicate with classmates so that we not only know the level of our own, but also get help from others. If we don’t understand, we can ask them and maybe get different ways of solving problems. Also, we should talk to the professor more, because the professor is the core of a class, communicating with him, we will get first-hand resources and methods, which boost our efficiency. Next, What I want to talk about is the importance of time, tasks and study environment and how to use them to overcome difficulties. Take my own example. I had an animal science exam last week, which is very difficult. The professor required us to read nearly a hundred pages of articles full of technical terms, which is even more difficult for our international students. Therefore, I made the plan a week before the exam until the exam. I calculated the approximate time I would spend on other homework, and then came out with the time I can use in the course of animal science in each following days. Then I reviewed from the last chapter because I was most familiar with it. While reviewing, I used my computer to read and ipad to take notes. Furthermore, I choose a perfect environment because environmental impact is really too big for me and  I can’t learn in my dorm, which would influence  my learning efficiency, so it is a waste of time. I usually choose to go to the second floor of the 18th avenue library because it is quieter. And I wore headphones to avoid noise, but I didn’t listen to music because it will distract me. After a week of intense study and well-designed  arrangements, I finally achieved my satisfaction. This made me more motivated to learn. So in general, going back to Sarah’s case, in order to achieve a good result, the first thing is to have the motivation to learn and the premise of learning motivation is to plan your own arrangements with consideration. 

As for me, I always have problems reading fast and efficiently. However, when I applied the strategies from this week reading to my study, I find my reading skills improved a lot. For instance, one of the most complicated course for me in this semester is animal science which requires mountainous readings every week and has numerous sophisticated terminology for us to understand. So, I always spend 2 to 3 hours to finish that, which spends me a lot of time. And I think my problem on reading is that I used wrong strategies that I just read it word by word instead of understanding the each main concepts or subtitle. Thus, according to Watkins’ article, we should follow the main concept and using the section title and headings. (Watkins, 2004). Moreover, there is also an problem that I has, which is I didn’t create a good environment for readings. (Watkins, 2004). So, next time, I should find a quiet place for benefiting my reading efficiency. Next, about taking notes, I think I have done a very great job so far. But I still get a problem that is I didn’t fully utilize my note-taking skills combining with readings. So, to improve my efficiency about reading with note-taking, I used mind map which is connection and finding relationships of each detailed information to create an overall outline of reading, according to this week reading “ Taking notes and studying” . By using mind map, I am able to get a image for assisting my reading, when I read a difficult concept, I can just look at the mind Map and extract the information I need to help me understand.

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As for me, I am glad to take this class because I want to get more knowledges about technology. I am a person who do not know much information about technology. For example, my friends always talk about how the latest phones have a special function or some computer system is so fast and I can’t even join their discussion, so I find this opportunity to enhance this area of knowledges. Second, even though it is my own preference to study this courses with regard to technology, it is also necessary to learn things about technology no matter what I think, because the world is growing so fast due to the developing technology. I think, in the future, everyone should learn well to utilize them otherwise we will be out of the world trend. After reading this week’s article, I get a clear understanding of how to become successful in online class. Like we should stay motivated, create a safe place for studies and know how to ask for help, etc. (Littlefield, 2019). Also, I get the definition of e-learning, which is defined as: any form of Learning that utilizes a network for delivery, interaction, or facilitation.(Long, 2004). Finally, I know the myths of online education which are some bad thoughts for taking online
course. For example, “ I Am Online All The Time: This Will Be Easy.” (Globokar, 2010) . I took online course before and I know it is truly wrong. In some extent, online course made me more time and they are more difficult than some of the traditional course. Thus, by reading these articles, I have gained a lot of tips to learn this course well and I will try my best to apply the knowledges I will learn from this course.

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