Learning in a grad school, I have learnt one important thing — you should keep on learning continuously. It should be a never ending process… Learn from anyone from everywhere and every time.. One of the easily available resources are online.
Now a days we have tons of videos available on the net. You name it and its present … besides the course prescribed textbooks and materials, it helps to use online resources to study and understand the material well .
For example : I have learnt statistics from Brandon Foltz and financial accounting from David Krug via YouTube. Currently I am learning corportate finance from the NYU Stern professor Aswath Damodaran
I have even skipped pre-read assignments as I just watch the video related to the topic and went to class. It helps as one professor tries to teach you in his own style at first and then another professor teaches you the application and helps you revise what you have learnt. Thus helping you clearly understand the given topic.
I have personally joined the R programming and the entire series from Coursera as in the statistics class we use R to calculate the values.. This helps me supplement my learning.
MOOCs provide courses from the colleges all over the world and thus giving you and insight as to how some rules and regulations are different
This is something really very simple and makes life easy. Not only you learn from professors in class but also from those in far away places, professors you would have never met. These things open up your mind and show you how things work around the world visa vi to what’s happening around you. You get new insights on the same things since no two people can have the same opinion on everything.
In addition its fun. You know more, learn more, assimilate more…. So try supplementing your learning with online lessons.
