Course Description
Increase the Effectiveness of Your Reading and Studying Skills
Achieve excellent speed reading abilities that enable you to study and learn efficiently with this free online course. Have you ever failed to understand or remember what you’ve read, especially while preparing for an important exam or a new assignment at work? This course will prevent such circumstances by providing you with simple and effective strategies for gaining excellent reading, comprehension and learning abilities. As a result, your spare time will increase and you will become more distinguished in your area of expertise and achieve your goals.
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| Training Provider | Alison |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Summarise the strategies used for improving your reading speed and comprehension • Explain how to use your finger to keep track of where you are on the page • Indicate the ways to decrease distractions and make reading enjoyable/incentivise yourself • Recognise the end goal, then reverse-engineer the stepping stones to get there • Identify questions that will assist you in defining your end goal • Describe the ‘highlight and revisit’ and ‘turning highlights into notes’ methods • Outline the importance of watching summaries of books first in retaining more information • State the benefits of learning and the proven learning techniques • Explain how the brain works • Outline the differences between the two modes of thinking • Discuss the various levels of competence • Identify the familiar and notorious learning practices • Indicate the best learning methods and their characteristics |
| Course Code | 4650 |
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