I visited my friend’s home for some work. I was surprised to see his son watching YouTube on the computer who had an exam the next day. I asked my friend, ‘Why is your son watching YouTube instead of studying when he has an exam tomorrow?’ My friend replied, ‘He is indeed studying for his upcoming exam. This is the modern method. He is doing it by watching videos related to the topics of his upcoming exam.’
Slowly and surely many students in the present time are spending more time watching video lectures and online classes than actually studying textbooks. This has become more with the Covid-era with no option but to shift to online study for most schools and colleges.
Live or recorded lectures and classes do have many advantages like you can study with the best teachers without geographical constraints. A student sitting in her house in the USA may learn from an expert teacher in Australia and vice versa. It saves you time and money going to and fro from your house to the school or college. It is safer also, with no chances of catching Covid or other infections from fellow students or while commuting, no road accidents, no mugging, etc. By the use of color graphs, animation, and actual demonstration by the experts doing a particular thing you may easily understand the concepts. This may be invaluable in learning skills such as cooking, dancing, sports, or even surgery.
But it is my personal feeling that video lectures should be used sparingly. Studying from textbooks should be the main method of studying for any serious student.
Due to the theatrical nature, teachers with less knowledge but dazzling presentation skills, glib tongue, charisma, magnetic personality, and great SEO strategy may come across as the best teacher in the world of video lectures and online classes. Teachers even with great in-depth knowledge may not be as popular as they may not be good speakers or presenters.
A video class may also have some filler material like the teacher making jokes, sharing personal experience, etc. to make the talk more interesting. But this can compromise the actual study material covered in the allotted time. You may cover more study matter while studying from textbooks. For this same reason, your learning may be actually slowed down by spending most of your time on video lectures.
By neglecting to study from written material, on seeing the written question paper in the exam you may have trouble comprehending what is being asked. You may also write the wrong spellings, especially of technical terms.
Again it is my personal feeling but long term memory, ability to recall and write the answer in exam is better with studying standard textbooks than video lectures.
If you have to study from video lectures or online classes please consider the following:
· Use the biggest size of screen available. Use laptops and desktops with large high-quality monitors instead of mobile phones with small screens.
· Use the 80:20 principle; spend only 20 to 30% of study time on video lectures and 70 to 80% reading or making notes.
· When studying from video lectures or online classes, use the sandwich technique. First, read the topic from a textbook and then watch the lecture. After finishing watching the lecture again read the topic from the textbook to get the maximum benefit from the video class.
· Use video lectures for a minimum time before exams. If possible watch only that video which summarises or reviews your topic from an exam point of view.
· For last-minute preparation, study preferably from your standard textbooks or better still from your own personal notes.
— ND
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