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What are some tips to get more out of long pre-recorded lectures?
I am seeing some online lectures and it seems so that my attention is decaying quite fast as time progresses in the lecture. Most lectures I find on the internet are 1hr yet the the time I can focus ...
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What are good habits in learning mathematics well?
Please bear with me while I provide some background and then ask my question, which I hope you will be able to answer and thus aid my capacity to learn mathematics more efficiently and thoroughly.
I ...
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Tracking reading progress of documentations or ebooks [closed]
Challenge: I need to read a lot of documentations and websites, but often in random order. I need to track which articles of a website, or which pages of a documentation I already read. I want to mark ...
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How to avoid getting lost in referring multiple reference texts at the same time?
I am a 2nd year PhD student working on a project which involves control systems and power systems. For the next stage of my work, I have to learn about a control systems technique which I am not ...
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How to deal with math problems if there is no solution book and no helpful teachers?
Since a short time ago, I refuse to try solving math questions of which there is no solution available, unless I'm working on an own/open problem in my thesis. In subjects however, I refuse, because ...
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Software that skips pauses in lecture recordings [closed]
I enjoy listening to lectures at 1.5x speed because I retain the same amount of information while saving time. I find that 2x speed is usually too fast except when the speaker pauses. I'm curious if ...
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What is the more efficient way of self-teaching, when the return is diminishing?
What is the more efficient way of self-teaching, when the return is diminishing? Keep on trying? or study more basic stuffs?
I am currently teaching myself a few subjects, but I have noticed that the ...
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Online vs hard copy, which texts are students more likely to read?
I am wondering if anyone knows of any studies that indicate whether students read online texts more or less than hard copy texts.
I am in the midst of trying to "reboot" the intro stats class I teach ...
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Is it possible to write PhD thesis (or PhD level article) in Computer Science without (real) advisor?
Is it possible to write PhD thesis (or PhD thesis level scientific articles) in Computer Science without real advisor (of course there always be formal one)? E.g. there are (almost) no books how to ...
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Understanding the works of intellectuals
I'm a master's graduate in biology. I completed a thesis recently on 'Social science in the age of biology'. It discusses how social scientists and biologists approach and answer questions pertaining ...
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Effects of Game-based Learning on Motivation for Learning [closed]
I found many studies discovering the impact of game-based learning on motivation for learning.
For example, these papers
You can also find a summary of them in this book chapter.
However, it is ...
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How to learn advanced math and statistics at my own pace? [closed]
I have not a very strong mathematical nor statistical background. This fact has not prevented me to work in a data analysis department because of my programming skills. I know the basics of important ...
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Online courses in standard university curriculums
Does anyone know examples where online courses (or other similar eLearning methods) are currently used effectively in the curriculum of a university?
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What is the best way to start learning a new course?
For learning new courses by one's self is it better
to read the related text
to attend online courses such as from sites like Coursera
to combine the two
or use another method altogether
In general, ...
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How do I encourage learning to an underprivileged group
Some faculty members are required to perform service to the community. Providing free education that improve societal value is one of the many ways to deliver the service. However, we recently are ...
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