Academic Skills

Learning Skills

How do You Learn More Effectively?

Content: Want to know how to minimise revision and maximise your time? It's quite simple really: the more you can remember, the less you have to re-learn. So how do you learn to remember? How do you learn best? What's your learning style? Does your learning style suit you? Question: Does this really mean I'll never have to revise again? Well, come and find out...

Lecture Slides and Resources:

• How do you learn effectively? (Powerpoint 180kb)

Further Reading:

• Cottrell, S (2001) Teaching Study Skills and Supporting Learning, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp 215-6
• Marshall, L. and Rowland, F. (1998) A Guide to Learning Independently, Buckingham: Open University (Key text – includes a long discussion on how we remember things)
• Arts.Net (2003) Understanding your own Learning Styles (online) http://www.artsnet.soton.ac.uk/academic_skills/ac_skills_prog.htm , Date Accessed: 10/10/05