Study Less, Learn More – Learning Strategies

Create a mix of basic learning strategies to study less and learn more for your academic studies, professional development or business improvement. Try practicing one or a mix of any number of these learning strategies and develop them to learning habits.

1. Be curious and excited.

Inculcate curiosity and anticipation in everything you want to learn. Start and end each lesson or topic with questions you have thought of that provoke your thoughts.

2. Condition your mind for receiving information.

Be receptive of the lessons you are studying. Have a mindset of getting new ideas every time you study or read.

3. Connect new lessons to old ones.

Upon studying a new lesson, figure out relationships it has with previous lessons. When reading new sources, recall stock knowledge that it has connection with.

4. Take breaks.

Learn more by studying less. There are stretches in your study or reading wherein your brain is no longer receptive to ideas. Continuing and forcing yourself will be just a waste of time and effort. You will be better off taking a break and resuming after around ten minutes break.

5. Relate your learning to the real world.

Use your imagination and ask yourself how you can apply the specific lesson in the real world. It will add to the retention of the lesson and will prepare you for actually applying your learning.

Start applying these learning strategies and you will be on your way to being a life-long and constant learner.

Educational Learning

Learning Strategies

Students use different learning strategies in their personal study time. Learning strategies are techniques used to facilitate a better and faster learning. They also make the learning process easier and enjoyable.

Learning strategies include methods of study improvement, better memory and quiz answering techniques. An association strategy called loci is a classic example of a technique in memory enhancement. A fact is associated with a place to make it very memorable and thus memorisable.

Learning strategies that aim to increase the degree of the on-going learning is called “mathemagenic.” An example of this kind is the variable insertion of questions before, during or after a lecture or a written study material. The technique has shown an increase of the degree by which the learning takes place. This kind of strategy has caused a corresponding change in the way professors have delivered their instructions and lessons.

The SQ3R method is a very common and widely used learning enhancement device and has become a studying skill used by children with good study habits or under effective tutors. The method involves five simple steps. First, scan the whole lesson to be studied. Second, think of questions you want to ask about the subject matter or in other words, be curious of what the lesson may be about. The third step is the actual reading of the subject matter. Fourth is making a mental review of as much of the whole material. And finally, reviewing the whole lesson by reading again.

The development of other learning strategies is still ongoing. They include social interaction, conversation and situational or situated learning.

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