• Your Personal Learning Style
• Memory
  
• Motivation
  
• Collaborative Learning

YOUR PERSONAL LEARNING STYLE

 

Take the following survey to determine how you learn best. Do you learn by listening to others? Can you remember information better if it is presented to you visually? Or, do you have to be actively involved in what you are doing in order to learn it?

Take the Survey

MEMORY

One of the most important tools you need in order to survive in college is the ability to remember.  Remembering by definition is any indication that learning has persisted over time; in other words memory is our ability to store and retrieve information.  Since we usually use our vision and auditory power to learn in college, we will focus on only those two sensory pathways to long-term memory.

MOTIVATION

• Why are you at Penn State?
  
• Why are you in the major you chose?
  
• Why did you choose your schedule of courses?
  
• How can you maintain your motivation for learning?

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING

As you continue on your journey about learning and succeeding in an academic environment you have come to realize that "learning" is not an individual accomplishment. You may have had at least one experience where you may have exclaimed, "I learned this on my own!" Nonetheless, it is likely that more often than not, you have been actively involved or engaged with an outside influence such as an object or another person.  Therefore, you have participated in some form of collaborative learning although you may not have labeled it as such.

What is collaborative learning, and why is this concept considered an important component for meeting academic success?