Have you ever wondered what is required for distance study to be productive?
Studying at a distance offers many advantages but it also requires a great capacity for self-discipline, which allows effective learning to be achieved with the objective proposed in the training project.
The student of the non-face-to-face systems enjoys the benefits derived from the modality, such as flexibility of days and hours of study, exercise and evaluation, and access to the contents and tutorials from the place where he decides.
Studying at a distance offers many advantages, but it also requires a great capacity for self-discipline, which allows effective learning to be achieved with the objective proposed in the training project.
It also provides the student with different tools that ensure the orientation and monitoring of such processes through the activity of the tutor, such as virtual classrooms, chat forums, textbooks, and explanatory videos. In addition, to have access to any study material 24 hours; the attention of general or particular, procedural or content queries by the tutors and, in most cases, also the temporal flexibility that means the absence of fixed schedules of obligations.
However, these elements cannot by themselves ensure a rhythm of intellectual work or learning in the learner.
They are suggested tools, procedures, courses of action, which remain in the hands of the student, fully responsible for the dedication and effort put into play in pursuit of the objective of learning.
Self-management and commitment made a determining role in achieving objectives within distance learning.
Self-management requires a certain degree of intellectual and emotional maturity that is assumed after adolescence.
Self-management guides the student at a distance, “learning to learn” by developing habits and attitudes, frequently generating methods and techniques of appropriation and assimilation of knowledge in different contexts. A committed learning will always be a personal process that develops within the individual.
Below we will give you a series of tips to develop self-management and commitment in distance study.
To manage time
Always remember that one hour of deep concentration is better than several hours of interrupted study. It is important that you define a daily amount of time to dedicate to the study and fulfillment of activities.
It is important that your environment knows that you are studying a distance career and respect the times you need it. Inform your family and friends about your hours. They will be able to offer you valuable accompaniment and support.
Make a calendar
It details all those small activities that mean studying: from obtaining the bibliography, downloading the readings and the program, to reading, summarizing and carrying out the activities proposed for the regularization of the subject. Also determine a weekly review space in which you reflect and review everything studied during the week.
Maintain a global vision
You can start the journey of each subject from the program and the general objectives. This will allow you to have an overview of all the content you will learn during the course, and it will also give you a clear idea about the purpose of each module and the topic in general regarding your training.
Use the self-assessment to assess the progress of your learning.
In distance education, the student must pay the cost of autonomy with a greater dose of commitment, will and individual responsibility.