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note taking strategies

First, we need to establish personal preferred note taking habits, like highlight key words with different colors, remarkable tags to easy locate, or multilevel lists.

Before we start to take a note, preview is helpful for us to know and familiar the important knowledges that we might take notes during a lecture.

In a lecture, it’s not necessary to write down all the things mentioned by teachers, the ability to identify important knowledges is required for taking a good notes. We can write a draft of notes by some tips like abbreviations.

After class, it’s best to re-write the draft notes, not only for a more readable notes, but also students can improve the understanding of the knowledges.

Time Management

Time management is a basic skill for students. To schedule a effective working time for a day is important.

First, students can find a comfortable place and a time in a day for learning to raise the efficiency. To do a good schedule at the end of a day for tomorrow’s work or at the start of a day is helpful. A checklist of all the stuffs to take along is important, and a list of assignments to finish in a day is necessary.

To manage time for both learning and relaxing is important that people will not feel tired to give up.

How to success online courses?

We should regard online courses’ assignments as regular courses, online courses are not easier than other courses to get high final grades.

The disadvantage is that it’s hard to meet classmates and professors, such that people should try to keep contacting them online or schedule a meeting with them, the assistance from peers is helpful for learning. Some applications for communication with classmates are useful in there.