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OUMH 1103
LEARNING SKILLS FOR OPEN DISTANCE LEARNERS
JANUARY 2016 SEMESTER
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BIBLI&.RAI
ASSIGNMENT QUESTION
PURPOSE
The purpose of this task is to assess your ability to:
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• search for information;
• make notes from the reading material;
• acknowledge other authors’ work, and
• demonstrate logical arguments/discussions with supporting facts and evidences.
ACTIVITY 1 (30%)
‘Teaching students how to study is as important as teaching the subject matter of a course.
Study skills help students achieve their goals, not only while in school/college or university,
but also in their daily lives’.
Do you agree or disagree with the statement
!n "##$"%# words, discuss relevant reasons to support your stand.
ACTIVITY 2 (30%)
!rrespective of your aim of furthering your studies, whether for pleasure, career advancement,
gaining a &ualification or ac&uiring knowledge and skills, a study skills course offers good
opportunity for self$advancement. 'eviewing and developing your study skills will not only
boost your confidence and help you succeed, but will also enable you to study more
effectively in the time available to you.
!n an essay of "##$"%# words, elaborate on how the time management skills that you have
learnt assist your planning in your studies. (upport your answer with relevant e)amples.
ACTIVITY 3 (30%)
'ead an essay on *emori+ation’ refer to -ttachment of the assignment &uestion. 0asedon the essay, prepare:
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a an annotation; and
b a mind map can be done in handwriting or computer typing of the essay that you
have read.
12ote: 3or this activity you are re&uired to scan your annotation notes and mind map if
written and submit them via online.
ACTIVITY ! (10%)
(hare your e)periences and describe how you make use of my456 to help you in learning
ote! "rite an essay of #$%&'%% words for the above activity.
"T#$&' 100 *+,
1-0 QUESTION 1
2owadays, provide instruction to students is a ma7or challenge to the teacher. The
need to provide continuous training to students to help students more competitive in the
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future. -s a teacher, the best of success for them is when their student manage to independent
and contribute to their society. 0ut as we already mentioned before, the challenge to make
this dream reality is too tough.
Teaching students how to learn is one of the important things that need to be
emphasi+ed during learning process. it is important as teaching a sub7ect matter of a course.
(ometimes students really take this lightly. -s a result of the convergence and focus on
developing students8 knowledge is also limited to e)isting knowledge. !t8s also include not
only the knowledge that want to be delivered to student, but also the way how the knowledge
can be represent. -s a result of weaknesses in the teacher focuses on student cause adverse
effects will be received by the students.
0esides that, study skills also can help student in enhance their soft skills. the way
student are nowadays being thought about their self management and self assessment as one
of criteria to developed soft skills. -ccording to 0rian Tracy 9#", the way teachers
delegate and describe the paper work or assignment to student basically helping student to
improve themselves. nintentionally, teachers already provide student with a little of
knowledge to student. (elf$improvement skills can help students more competitive with
challenges.
-nother purpose of teaching student is it will help student to set their goal. -s when
student are given some assignment in their courses, they will always more focused on the
ob7ectives and goals of the course until they may fulfilled it. -s they stay focused on their big
picture, their ob7ective, they can come out with two or more plan so they can really manage
to finished their assignment. if we take this analogy in our daily life, basically we will do thesame. !f we want to achieve our goal to became success person, we should plan wisely and
take some two or three steps forward to e)pect the une)pected. -s a result, student will learn
how to manage the source and organi+e a better plan to achieve their goal.
-s we come to the conclusion, all discussion we made on the main topic and preview
the structure of paper with all the fact, then ! agree that study skills help student achieve their
goals, not only in college/schools or university but also in their daily life.
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99 words
2-0 QUESTION 2
*ost students find that their greatest challenge in ad7usting to college life and to
succeeding in the classroom is in managing their time effectively. This is especially true for
community college students who often work long hours. 3ail to plan with efficient time
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management will consider as a failure. (ometimes, this happen upon a certain reason. 0esides
that adult students deal with the additional issues of child care and family and home
responsibilities. -ll of this reason will cause so much burden and failure in time management
that we want to discuss on up rise matter.
3irst of all, after identifying the main problems in the management of time, we need
to plan our schedule, rearranging the table by putting the needs of learning, personal
and management. -ccording to 0rian Tracy 9#", it is important to overcome the stress that
causes our failure time management. 3or e)ample, by putting the important work for e)ample
the class and assignment over our routine and social life is a way to ma)imi+e our time
management. no> learn to say >later>.
0esides that, by understood the real goal of our life, we can construct back our
mentality and put things important and urgent than things important and not urgent. ?e
already know if we will be given with a new assignment at the beginning of each school term,
certainly we will identify some resources that can help us in meeting the needs of the sub7ect.
=ence the need to find a good source as tutor to meet more often to understand the needs of
the course and revision of a book in the library is an important factor to the success of
managing time well. (o, in order to ma)imi+e the capacity of student with full of
responsibility as workers also, we need to well manage all of our recourses.
5ast but not least, the important thing is to how to improve decision$making ability.
-s a student who is also an employee, we will be charged with the duties and responsibilities
that come at the same time. The need for us to make the right decisions in a short time can be
driven by a high sense of accountability. 3or e)ample, to fulfill coursework re&uirement
compared to routine 7ob, both of it are important but the most important work to do is depend
on when the work should be handed to authori+ed person. !f we manage to do this then at the
same time can reduce the feeling of pressure as a result of our failure to manage time well.
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!n conclusion, the three reasons and arguments given above helped me to manage
time well in addition to ma)imi+ing the time that belongs to me. 6ven in busy time at work,
at the same time ! also can arrange courses given task well.
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3-0 QUESTION 3
MEMORI.ATION
H#/ / R'
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. *emory itself probably cannot be developed; however, improvement in remembering
comes from correcting certain habits or thoughts so that we use our memory to its’
fullest potential. 'emembering is like seeing; improvement in either function does not
depend upon how much we use it, but, rather, how we use it.
9. The first and most important rule for remembering is: cultivate the habit of close
attention to the thing you wish to remember. 0e sure you have a clear, sharp
impression of the face, name, date, or facts, which you will need to know at a future
time. !f you wish to remember a fact, make it meaningful to you.
". ?hen we are learning, we should try not only to get a strong impression, but also to
obtain as many different kinds of impressions as possible. (ome people can
remember colours distinctly, but have a poor memory for shapes. 0ut anyone, by
putting together and using all of the impressions our sense organs bring us about one
thing, allows us to remember it much more clearly than if we were to rely on sight or
sound alone. 3or e)ample, try reading your lesson aloud. !n doing this, your eye takes
on the appearance of the printed word, your ear passes the sound of the words to your
brain, and even the tension of the muscles of your throat add their bit to the total
impression which your mind is e)pected to store away.
. Try to visuali+e it. 6ither remember a diagram or a picture of the material to be
remembered, or take short notes about it, which help you to visuali+e.
%. !ntend to remember. The mere intention to remember puts the mind in a condition to
remember, and if you will make use of this fact in studying you will be able to recall
between 9# and A# percent more of what you read and hear than you would if you
were not actively trying to remember.
A. Think about it. - fact doesn8t belong to you until you have used it. !n making use of
this principle, plan to spend not more than one$half of your study period in readingyour lesson. se the other half in doing something with what you learn. Think about
what you have studied, write down notes on it, and e)plain it to somebody else.
B. 5ogical memory. Cne of the most important of all aids to the remembering process is
the habit of associating a new idea immediately with facts or ideas that already firmly
lodged in your mind. This association revives, and strengthens the old memories and
prevents the new one from slipping away by anchoring it to the well$established
framework of your mental world.
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. 'emembering by brute force. ?e will forget more, on the average, during the first
hour after learning than during the ne)t 9 hours; and we will forget more, on the
average, during the first day than we will during the ne)t thirty days. ?hatever is left
after thirty days time, we will probably be able to hold on to without much further
loss for years to come.
@. 'eviewing is much more effective if carried out before memories have entirely
escaped than it is after considerable time has elapsed. 'epetitions should be strung out
over as long a time as is available. ?e remember better if we pause a little between
periods of study.
#. =ow much to study Eou should study more than 7ust enough to learn your
assignment. 6)periments have proven that %#F more study resulted in %#F better
retention. -fter a week had passed, it was found that e)tra work had salvaged si)
times as much of the material as in the case when it was barely learned.
*ind *ap.
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!-0 QUESTION !
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The development of technology in today proves the effectiveness of the learning
process before. in line with the country8s education system has also progressed with the
introduction of self$learning system called my456. This self$learning process is seen as a
new shift in the education system because of several factors which we will discuss on the
matter arise.
The first factor is the ease of access to information. 0y using my456, ! was able to
get the information easily at the fingertips easily as access to a virtual library that is contained
in this system. 0y using this virtual library ! can access the latest information for studies and
my 7ob. -ccording to (tella Gottrell and 2eil *orris9#9, !t also helps in studying and also
obtain these &uestions from past year that there are in the virtual library. =ence my use of the456 has helped me not only to get information but also provide e)perience in answering the
&uestions last year.
!n addition, the use of my456 in can help me in closing the gap between lecturers
and students. ! can e)change information and views with the lecturer on the course and
assignments through the column forum appearing in my456. not only that, ! also can share
information with colleagues in respect of tasks assigned by the lecturer. as well as discuss the
virtual assignment.
The last factor is the cost and time saving. with my456, ! can communicate directly
with faculty and colleagues through cyberspace in forum discussions. This also have been
discuss by 0in Hou, *in7ie Iing, et al9#". This not only helped me in learning, but also to
save time and cost me. Jenerally, we note that we were burden through all of our
commitment. -s a teacher who is also a student of the same time, the need to ma)imi+e time
and minimi+e costs should also be taken into account. Therefore, using this my456 veryhelpful and lighten my load.
!n conclusion, based on the argument that given the proof of use my456 in learning
has provided many positive effects. -nd to assist me in carrying out my responsibilities as a
student with effective and efficient.
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0ibliografi
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(tella Gottrell and 2eil *orris9#9, Study Skills (onnected )sing Technology to Support
Studies, *acmillan