My learning experiences include my mandatory schooling
learning, my tertiary education learning, my corporate training learning, my
learning for undergraduate lecturing as well as my postgraduate learning. In
each stage the material being learned was different, from generic topics to
specific topics to hands-on topics but my way of learning has been mostly
through reading and explaining what I have understood. I have to make a big
effort to focus on someone explaining verbally but find it easier to understand
when graphical explanations are used. I need to understand what I need to learn
and will move away from learning by heart.
A particularly successful learning experience has been the
recent postgraduate learning experience that involves weekly Skype tutorials
wherein I can explain what I have understood and discuss the topic further with
my tutor. Discussions tend to make me think further later and infer further
learning from the discussion.
An unsuccessful learning experience was when I joined a
course on Network Queuing Theory, being attracted by the Networking aspect,
only to find that it consisted of about fifty mathematical theorems that need
to be learnt by heart. This shut me away and I failed the subject by deliberately not
sitting for the exam...
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