09-25-2017, 09:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-25-2017, 09:19 PM by aviator guy.)
I think study.com is "easy" but not for reasons many might initially believe.
A lot of business courses will have some degree of overlap, and as a result I've seen some of the same topics covered on study.com courses as well as other courses. Guess what? The same material is presented.
I do believe that Study.com makes learning easier, which shouldn't necessarily be confused with the course being "easy." Dividing the material into bite sized chunks, using drill to "set" the new material tends to work out better for the majority of folks.
I just did a quick experiment by doing a word count on a few study.com lessons and compared it to a few random e-textbook pages. The study.com lessons had about the same amount of actual text (not images, captions, sidebars, graphics and other non-text artifacts) as the textbook did in 4-5 pages.
Considering each Study.com course seems to average about 100 lessons, you're getting the equivalent of a 400-500 page textbook, just broken down into chunks... with a review every few pages. FWIW, the e-textbooks (excluding the index, glossary, appendices, etc) seem to average... 400-500 pages.
Combine this with the video presentation (some people just learn better this way) and you'll find that people tend to absorb the information much easier and have a much more positive learning experience.
Compare this with other options out there for e learning (here's some books and other crap, have fun... good luck on your test) and I do think it's apparent why people tend to say study.com is "easy" but I don't think they mean what a lot of people think they do. Just because learning is "easier" doesn't necessarily reflect on the material... but on the other hand, it is absolutely a reflection of the teaching style. At the end of the day, shouldn't that be a feather in the cap of learning technology? The ability to present material in a fashion that connects with learners? We all know the difference a "good" instructor can make... in my opinion, the same judgements can be applied to the various methods in e learning.
Just my opinion, and it's worth what you paid for it (several seconds of your life to read it if you made it this far, so it actually has a negative value
)
A lot of business courses will have some degree of overlap, and as a result I've seen some of the same topics covered on study.com courses as well as other courses. Guess what? The same material is presented.
I do believe that Study.com makes learning easier, which shouldn't necessarily be confused with the course being "easy." Dividing the material into bite sized chunks, using drill to "set" the new material tends to work out better for the majority of folks.
I just did a quick experiment by doing a word count on a few study.com lessons and compared it to a few random e-textbook pages. The study.com lessons had about the same amount of actual text (not images, captions, sidebars, graphics and other non-text artifacts) as the textbook did in 4-5 pages.
Considering each Study.com course seems to average about 100 lessons, you're getting the equivalent of a 400-500 page textbook, just broken down into chunks... with a review every few pages. FWIW, the e-textbooks (excluding the index, glossary, appendices, etc) seem to average... 400-500 pages.
Combine this with the video presentation (some people just learn better this way) and you'll find that people tend to absorb the information much easier and have a much more positive learning experience.
Compare this with other options out there for e learning (here's some books and other crap, have fun... good luck on your test) and I do think it's apparent why people tend to say study.com is "easy" but I don't think they mean what a lot of people think they do. Just because learning is "easier" doesn't necessarily reflect on the material... but on the other hand, it is absolutely a reflection of the teaching style. At the end of the day, shouldn't that be a feather in the cap of learning technology? The ability to present material in a fashion that connects with learners? We all know the difference a "good" instructor can make... in my opinion, the same judgements can be applied to the various methods in e learning.
Just my opinion, and it's worth what you paid for it (several seconds of your life to read it if you made it this far, so it actually has a negative value
)
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