Enhancing Study Skills
Module 1: Learning Skills
What is learning? Learning approaches
Stages in the process of learning
Learning styles (8 types)
Learning strategies
Difference between study and learning
Life-long learning
How to learn online?
Module 2: Study Skills
What is Study?
What are Skills?
What are study skills?
Reading Strategies
Organization of study
Effective listening skills
Module 3: Thinking Skills
What are thinking skills? And why it is important in education
Classification and types of thinking
Meta Cognition
Difference between problem solving and decision making
Module 4: Skill for organizing information
Attention and listening skills
What is attention?
Improving listening
Strategies for listening
What is note taking?
-Key words in self-learning materials
-Note taking in the margin
Organization of information
-Two-column strategy
-Reading grid strategy
-Topic and description card
-Reminders
-CEI strategy
Re-organization of notes using alternative formats
-Organization of contents
-Star diagram
-Spider map
-Circle diagram
-Square diagram
-Fishbone diagram
-Chain diagram
-Timeline diagram
-Flowchart diagram
-Venn diagram
-T-chart
-Decision making chart
-Cause and effect chart
-Inquiry chart
-Comparison of characters
-Flash card
-Matrices
Module 5: Time Management Skills
What is the time management?
Why time management important?
Prioritization
Scheduling
Concentration and focus
Goal setting and self-motivation
Time management challenges
Module 6: Self Care
What is self-care and its benefits
Types of self-care
Stress management
Prioritizing self-care
Reinforcement of yourself
Digital detoxing
Pedagogy of the Course
The Learner is expected to spend:
Sixty hours to complete the course.
● Nearly twenty, half an hour videos and
essential readings which will also be the self learning material.
● Internal assessment would be through
assignments and quizzes. In addition, there will be discussion forums also.
● Proctored examination at the end of the
Course covering all the blocks.
Objectives of the Course
After going through this course, the learners will be able to:
define the meaning of learning skills;
identify the learning skills to be acquired by the learners;
identify the various study skills required by the learner;
differentiate between the learning skills and the study skills;
Acquaint yourselves with how to teach thinking skills.
Re-organize your time for study;
Discuss the meaning of stress and how it affects our body and mind;
Develop the self-care
skills for studies;
Learning Outcomes
The successful completion of this course learners are expected to enhance the study skills to inculcate them with confidence, time management skills, communication skills and feeling of belongingness while writing assignments and appearing in the examination.
