Home Alone

28 July 2022

Study hacks, and quick and easy ways to learn are all over the internet. “Why I stopped going to class and so should you” is one of the more clickbaity titles, and it sounds like the dream - learn at home, at your own pace, and spend the extra time getting paid for work experience while you study. I’m travelling right now, and in many ways my job is flexible enough to accomodate this.  I can watch short videos, tweet, respond to email queries, and livestream my conference talk remotely, all while travelling. If it works for the teachers, why doesn’t (or shouldn’t) this work for students? The truth is that it does work for some students, but they are the exception, not the norm.  Let’s talk about why this is the case, and dive into a few study strategies that may help you study online more efficiently.