Succeed with learning: Online Course from OpenLearn

This course is for people who want to feel more confident about their learning skills. Informal in approach, the course builds on each person's own qualities, knowledge and skills to develop a ...

Syllabus

- Introduction and guidance
- Introduction and guidance
- What is a badged course?
- How to get a badge
- Acknowledgements
- Week1Week 1: What is learning?
- Introduction
- 1 Everyday learning – what's going on?
- 1.1 Case study 1: Jim’s story
- 1.2 Case study 2: Angela’s story
- 2 Thinking about someone else’s ideas
- 3 Formal or informal?
- 3.1 One person’s experience
- 4 Thinking about your own learning
- 5 How do you learn best?
- 6 Reflection
- 7 This week’s quiz
- 8 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week2Week 2: Learning from life
- Introduction
- 1 Using some everyday experiences
- 2 Being organised
- 2.1 Organising your study time
- 2.2 Time management
- 3 Learning to change
- 3.1 Comfort zones
- 3.2 Developing emotional literacy
- 3.3 Further techniques for emotional literacy
- 4 Reflection
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week3Week 3: Learning about yourself
- Introduction
- 1 Qualities
- 1.1 Turning negatives into positives
- 2 Knowledge
- 3 Skills
- 3.1 Transferable skills
- 4 Communication skills
- 4.1 Online communication skills
- Netiquette
- 4.2 Using your communication skills
- 4.3 Developing communication skills
- 5 Reflection
- 6 This week’s quiz
- 7 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week4Week 4: Reflection and feedback
- Introduction
- 1 Learning through reflection
- 1.1 Reflection at work
- 1.2 Reflecting on your learning
- 2 Getting feedback from other people
- 2.1 Some theories about feedback
- 2.2 How can you get another perspective?
- 2.3 Using your feedback
- 2.3.1 Using the Johari Window
- 3 Reflection
- 4 This week’s quiz
- 5 Summary
- Acknowledgements
- Week5Week 5: Learning tool kit
- Introduction
- 1 Academic skills
- 1.1 Reading, writing and note-taking
- 1.2 Essay writing
- 1.3 Reflective writing
- 1.4 Developing your writing skills
- 2 Using mind maps
- 2.1 Further uses for mind mapping
- 2.2 Using mind mapping as a first stage for writing
- 3 Using information found online
- 4 Referencing
- 5 Your academic skills
- 6 Reflection
- 7 This week’s quiz
- 8 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week6Week 6: Wider perspectives
- Introduction
- 1 Why theory might be useful
- 2 Exploring learning theories
- 3 Learning communities
- 3.1 The example of St Kilda
- 3.2 Communities of practice
- 3.3 Your learning communities
- 3.4 A ‘health warning’ about groups
- 4 Student approaches to learning
- 4.1 Background to Entwistle's theory
- 4.2 Your approach
- 5 Reflection
- 6 This week’s quiz
- 7 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week7Week 7: Where next?
- Introduction
- 1 Making plans
- 1.1 Action planning — an overview
- 2 Developing a vision
- 3 Introducing case studies
- 3.1 Case study 1: Mike’s story
- 3.2 Case study 2: Charity’s story
- 4 Turning visions into goals
- 5 Setting SMART goals
- 5.1 Your own SMART goals
- 6 Reflection
- 7 This week’s quiz
- 8 Summary
- Acknowledgements
- Week8Week 8: Your plan
- Introduction
- 1 Developing your plan
- 1.1 Force-field analysis
- 1.2 Case-study illustration
- 2 Thinking about resources
- 2.1 People
- 2.2 Informal learning
- 2.3 Formal learning
- 2.4 Free online courses
- 3 Designing your action plan
- 3.1 Working with your action plan
- 3.2 Keeping your journal active
- 4 Final reflection – the cycle of learning
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary
- Tell us what you think
- References
- Acknowledgements

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