2 Get Ready for College Learning
Welcome to college! Whether this is your first time in post-secondary education, or you’re returning to studies, you’ll have some goals you want to achieve. Wherever you are in your journey, you’ve found yourself in a college learning environment.
A good foundation for college is learning how to learn. By reading this book and completing the exercises, you’re building skills that will support you in your classes and future learning.
Successful students share a set of skills and habits. Anyone can learn the skills that support successful learning. Taking the time to learn proven study strategies will help as you pursue your learning goals and avoid pitfalls that can take you off-track. In this chapter, you’ll focus on how you learn.
Who is this book for?
This book focuses on skills needed to be successful in college. If you are:
- new to college studies.
- returning to college after some time away.
- a mature student.
- an international student.
- or a continuing student who wants to improve their skills and strategies; this book is meant to support you in your journey.
Education beyond (at a higher level than) high school.
A detailed plan for achieving success ... or the skill of planning for such situations.[1]
A learning strategy is an individual’s way of organizing and using a particular set of skills in order to learn content or accomplish other tasks more effectively and efficiently in school as well as in non-academic setting.[2]