Preferred learning mode
I’d love to take an anatomy class and woo hoo – our local, fab community college offers one!
I love this muscular system cheat sheet my parents gave me, but I’d like to rely on it a bit less.
Sigh, the problem though?! It’s online, and I struggle BIG TIME with learning from videos. Sigh sigh sigh.
What’s your preferred learning mode? In person? Hands on? Classroom? Textbook? Video? Osmosis?
I greatly prefer a classroom/in-person setting with hands on training when applicable. This is followed by text book. I can learn from a book, I just really have to focus, and hey, that’s easier for me in a classroom. Video? Not a good chance. With dual monitors, I’m constantly screwing around with something on the other screen. It’s pathetic how short my attention span is when it comes to watching videos (for learning or for fun).
Maybe I’ll look around and see if other local colleges offer a weekend course. Or I’ll just have to learn to focus on the screen!
(Total FWP, fo sho. I’m grateful to have the opportunity to expand my knowledge, and the money and resources to do so. Just thinking about how I learn best, is all.)
Themocracy
I took an athletic training class in high school. At the time I thought it stunk but thinking back I wish I stuck with it. I’m sure it would be beneficial to help treat the aches and pains I get these days. Good luck with the class.
I am taking an online A&p class now and really like it. I get to go at my own pace…. I can skim the stuff I already know and spent extra time on the stuff I dobt. The key is that there are a lot of workbook and online exercises. Answering questions and making diagrams (basically applying the knowledge) is how I learn it.
Oh, good point – those exercises do REALLY help me retain the knowledge 🙂
Yeah video would not be optimal for me either. I’m better off just reading a book. Something about this computer age has made us all so easily distracted.
Right? It’s horrible how fast I click between things on my computer. I need a forced slow down!
There is a fantastic online anatomy video series by Acland that we use to supplement our anatomy class and I’ve used extensively when studying (http://aclandanatomy.com/about). I’m much more of a hands-on learner but the way these videos show you how muscles move is really helpful. It does use real specimens though so you’d have to be okay with seeing a cadaver. It looks like you can register for the site but many of my classmates have found clips on youtube. I also have a bunch downloaded on my computer that I could share with you if you’d like.
NU has an evening in-person anatomy class offered at most times during the year and I know MGH in Boston offers an online course and an online lab with virtual dissection as well. Feel free to e-mail me if you have questions or want the videos!
Oh wow! Thank you so much for the link! I will have to search for those vids. I am okay with the cadavers. I kind of want to see Body Worlds again, now that I know more about the human body!
It sounds like I need to do some more searching. I will and will let you know if I have questions!
One question for you – how is school going? 🙂
Its going really well! I only have a few more classes left and except for one all are interesting/relevant. I’m also doing a lot of shadowing which I really enjoy, to prepare to apply this summer (schools like to see up to 150 hours). Its pretty exciting and starting to feel SO real! Thanks for asking :).
Yay! I am happy it’s going so well and that you are finding it so interesting! Where do you think you will shadow this summer?
I’m shadowing right now at an outpatient clinic near my office so I see a lot of sports injury, posture issues, etc. I’m also planning to start doing some inpatient shadowing after the new year where I’ll see more acute injury and post-surgery pt.
Ha! Osmosis is definitely my preferred method of learning 😛 Actually, I guess that kind of *is* how I like to learn, in a roundabout sort of way. I find it much easier to learn something when I absorb it through experience or my own research rather than having someone tell me about it in any capacity. I’ve actually (accidentally) learned a decent amount about anatomy over the past four months thanks to all my injuries and wanting to know more about them! Haha. I guess that’s really the most effective way for me to learn any sort of information, though: it has to be something I want to know more about, not something a curriculum thinks I need to know more about. *insert independence rant here* 😛
Let’s just hope you don’t have to injure all of the parts of your body to learn about them! LOL. I am the same way, ha, well, in that I hate being told what to do, or learn. Or forced to learn something I don’t care about. 😉
I learn best in person, auditorally. I definitely get distracted when trying to do online classes. I’ve taken a couple of them. An anatomy class would be fun but hard I bet! Lots of things to memorize!
I had to take A&P in undergrad and it was very interesting—but warning, we had to dissect a cat :-/ So it might be worth checking on that—-not sure how you would feel about it. My lab partner and I gave ours a name, that’s the only thing that made us feel better about the situation.
Yeah, that would be a no go for me. I’d rather, um, see a human cadaver.
I took a MOOC online class via the Ed-X platform this fall and I really enjoyed it – they have a ton of classes!
I’ve realized that I’m also not great with video learning, which kind of surprised me. There are a lot of video-based online learning start-ups and companies now, and a lot of them are like, “Learn from anywhere!” Except not everyone can be successful with this modality for learning. Do you learn better if there are checks along the way to keep you on task?
Good point – I wonder if those companies realize that is only a part of the market? (probably)
I DO learn better with checks that make sure I am paying attention. And repetitiveness (is that a word?!) helps me!