Do you struggle to learn online?

[gillywibble]

There is a huge wealth of information available to us on the internet, but frankly I gain only a limited amount of knowledge simply because I find 'internet learning' quite difficult.

I will quite often bookmark an interesting article or wiki page, with the full intention of self improvement, but when I come to read the information, I struggle to take it in unless it's a subject in which I have a fairly good grasp of to start with.

Am I alone in this? I know there are different ways of assimilating information, i.e. I find it easier talking to someone to grasp the rationale of their explanation.

Assuming there are others like me, how do you deal with this 'learning disadvantage'?

 

[MrMoonX]

I hated the Virtual learning environment of an OU course I did a while back, cos the course was online only, I got really fed up of it in the end and just did enough to pass

 

[TheCenturion]

I struggle with learning full stop. Possibly because my mind has become extremely lazy over the last few years.

If I'm trying to learn about something on the internet, I find it more difficult to learn when reading an article than if that article was printed out on a piece of paper. However, I learn fairly well by watching videos online, youtube has a great load of educational videos.

 

[ScoTTyBEEE]

There's too many distractions, there's a whole INTERNET out there!

 

[AHarvey]

I just prefer learning from a proper paper book

 

[steve-h]

No. Obviously I find things that are beyond my grasp... but they aren't for long

Get yourself motivated, why do you want to learn? What's the goal, etc

 

[Arnie]

I like it.

 

[Zefan]

Never really tried it. When I did 1 part pf CCNA I found it relatively easy to learn from material delivered by computer, but we had a physical classroom and instructors backing it all up.

 

[OriginalJonty]

I just prefer learning from a proper paper book

This. It's also why I'm struggling to read books with the kindle app.

 

[Cosimo]

I’ve done some online training and concentration is the key. I find it too easy to get distracted. For me it’s much easier from a book or in a classroom.

 

[Castiel]

I'll learn anything from anywhere, I really wish that the internet and the online resources it supplies was available when I was a kid, I shudder to think how much more I could have accomplished academically if we were not limited to small libraries and a limited selection of resources as we were then.

 

[2StepSteve]

There's too many distractions, there's a whole INTERNET out there!

This!

 

[trigger-happy]

never learn anything off wikipedia. I could never understand it fully lol.