Hi, I'm doing Excel to MySQL: Analytic Techniques for Business Specialization at Coursera. It started a week ago, and in the beginning it's a lot about learning economic vocabulary - I guess the interesting stuff will come later. Next I want to look at Data Science and Python, but I talked to someone who said the Python bit was really difficult. I'll give it a go though.
starkid wrote:
The difficult part of MOOCs is my auditory processing issues. Listening for a long time is tiring, and I tend to zone out. My attention span for reading and studying on my own is longer. I tend to do ok with the courses that are split up into short videos. For the longer videos, I just watch them a little at a time, then pause them and do something else for a while. Also, I sometimes preview the lecture slides so I have an overview of the whole lecture in my mind and don't get lost in the details of a long lecture.
I like videos a lot for the opportunity to take a break and return. I have a bit of a problem with watching videos, for me a podcast would have been better, but all in all I like being in control and having things broken down into shorter bits. I started a course called Learning how to learn, but didn't finish due to being busy moving. It started really great, though, very useful information.
21 Sep 2015, 1:00 pm
