I am very much a visual learner. Often times when classes have large amounts of reading, I don’t do nearly as well in the class and I end up not enjoying the subject. What I gained from this module was ideas to supplement my learning and interact with the material more. Even if the professor requires large textbook readings to understand a concept, I can always go online and find videos that cover the same or similar content to engage my mind more and expand my knowledge.

I typically do this with challenging math and stats courses by going onto websites like khan academy in order to review and learn the steps to solving a problem. I realize now that there are so many sources out there for me to do the same with history, social sciences, and even computer programming. Education and information is widely accessible today, we as students just need to know where to look.

the MIT OpenCourseware page was a new resource for me which I thoroughly enjoyed exploring. There is so much content on that site available for free to students and it comes with the added satisfaction of there being credibility to the content because it is affiliated with such a large university. I plan on using this website a lot more in the future as I try to explore new subjects that are beyond the scope of my classes. For me, that’s mostly the technical course offerings.