10 hot tips for studying long distance…
It can be hard to motivate yourself when you're studying from home, so here are some helpful tips:
By – DeskDemon.com
- Find out what the learning provider does, if anything, to bring students together.
- Check to see whether there's a residential component. Many of the Open University's courses, for example, include one week with all the other students on your course.
- Does the provider offer any facility for a students' forum, for example on their web site?
- Make sure you know what equipment you'll need before you start, in terms of having a pc with the right packages, for example, or a video machine, email and Internet access.
- Be sure you know what support is available to you while you're studying?
- Try to link up with students in your area to get the flavour of student life.
- Make full use of the resources available locally. Can you get access to the libraries in your area, such as those of universities and colleges of further education?
- Plan your study time well.
- Why not find out if the provider will put you in touch with another student on the course so you can help each other out?
- Set yourself weekly goals, so that you know what you want to accomplish each week, however small a step it is to your final accreditation.
