Your success in the business environment today and in the future depends on life-long learning. This course will help you develop personalized strategies for meeting this critical challenge.
Most workers today, regardless of their position and responsibilities, face an overwhelming need to use their brains more effectively. Learning and adapting to changing demands are the critical survival skills for today and the future. This course will help you sharpen your learning, remembering, and thinking skills through stimulating exercises and practical experiences. During the course, you'll explore your current strategies for learning and remembering as you map out techniques for dealing with new information and skills.
In this course students will:
Be able to describe yourself as a strategic learner and develop a map for optimal learning.
Strengthen memory skills through a better understanding of how memory works and through strategic use of memory techniques.
Demonstrate habits and practices designed to keep the brain young and sharp at any age.
Employ learning tools (i.e. strategic learning plans, mind mapping, reading tools and "learning from others" strategies) to boost learning and success.
Prerequisites
Students should be familiar with browsing the internet, uploading files and using their operating system.
Requirements
No special software or equipment is required for this course.
Scheduled Dates
You can register for an online class for up to 10 days after the start date.
1/27/2010 - 2/16/2010
8 hours - $99
2/24/2010 - 3/17/2010
8 hours - $99
3/24/2010 - 4/14/2010
8 hours - $99
4/21/2010 - 5/12/2010
8 hours - $99
Classes start every four weeks.
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