If you are like most students, you are probably using many wrong learning techniques.  Evidence-based methods and study practices will help you find learning breakthroughs.

Are you doing any of the following practices?  If so, research shows you are using faulty and inefficient learning strategies:

• Relying on highlighting of book passages to help you remember?
• Rereading chapters or long passages several times to help you remember?
• Power studying – sitting down for long periods of time forcing yourself to remember?
• Continuing to work on a difficult problem for a long period of time until you solve it?
• Cramming the night before an exam?

None of these are effective learning practices!  All are ineffective and waste your time.

Each of the 20 engaging online video lesson is packed with content and takes you only about 30 minutes to complete.  You can work at a pace comfortable to your schedule.

How does it work?

The steps are easy to follow.  Watch short engaging online class lectures, read and complete assignments, practice the skills, and complete a few fun assessments along the way.  All of the lessons are designed to help you better master the materials and be well prepared.  You then use this new information to plan changes to how you will study and measure the results.  Simple.

Content Overview

This program will produce many meaningful benefits for you.  You will discover sound scientific learning principles, along with “take-away“ skills that you can use throughout a lifetime.  You will get to practice over 20 new techniques to transform your study and learning practices, including these important benefits:

• Research shows that college “A” students study less than “B” students! They study smarter. Learn how they do it.
• Learn why most of the study strategies used by students are wrong. Learn to use the ones that work.
• How to study in shorter more powerful bursts.
• Learn what neuroscience tells us about good and bad study habits.
• Learn how to use better study habits and routines.
• Learn how to use the 12 most effective learning strategies.
• Explore the power of spaced practice and retrieval practice.
• Learn how to use recitation to overcome the forgetting curve.
• Know how to apply the effective technique of Bjork’s “deliberate practice
• Have you heard of the Pomodoro technique—it will help you learn faster!
• Learn how to outsmart procrastination.
• Did you know your brain keeps learning when you take breaks and when you sleep? Learn how to use your Diffused learning process.
• Learn 5 techniques to reduce the need for inefficient and boring rereading.

How to Attend

Take it at Your Convenience. The course is independent study and self-paced so you can begin and complete it when you want.

Access: Watch it from anywhere with an internet connection.

To pre-enroll:  It’s easy.  Ask your parents to sign up for course information on the home page of the Center for Homeschooling site.  We will send you a notice when this and other new courses come online.  You can then click on the link which will take you to the course enrollment.  The modules will be fed to you one at a time, so that you can complete them at your convenience.  That’s it.  Simple and easy to enroll.

This course is designed for teens and young adults.  If you want to up your game, sign up.

Includes

• Full access to all video presentations and lectures
• Downloadable audio lectures
• Downloads of all slide presentations
• Easy to use downloadable assessment and discussion tools
• Download of all assignments including readings, background information, and checklists