Learning Resources Online
This page is to help you find online information resources, learning resources online and other resources on line to help you learn more effectively by distance. This page also has links to free online resources.
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Learning Resources Online
Once you've enrolled in your chosen program, you'll need to find resources to help you with your learning. You'll especially need these when you're working on your assignments. You will, of course, have your course materials and the prescribed textbooks. But you'll also need more - because it is essential that you read around the area as much as possible so as to make your learning a rich and rewarding experience.
Obviously, it will be best if you can find these resources available free of charge. So that's what this page is designed to do - to help you find those resources that you need - free or at minimal cost.
Navigating the Learning Resources Online
With so many learning resources online, it can be difficult to sort out the useful or reliable material from that which is rubbish. That's partly where your teachers or yor course materials can help you. But there is a limit as to how much they can do. So this web site also seeks to help you to find the best online resources for your studies.
A good place to start is our web page Online Information Resources. That links to online study resources that have been reviewed by subject experts.
Using the Online Searches on this ODL Web Site
If you feel confident that you can sort out the good from the bad, you can search for learning resources online using a search engine (e.g., Google). You can start by using the Search Engines on this ODL web site:
With this search box you can search this web site
With this search box you can search the WWW
Search results will be displayed in a new window, which you can close to return to Learning Resources Online.
Tips for learning online
Here are three things you should make sure you do, two things you shouldn't do, and one thing that is absolutely forbidden, if you are wanting to learn online.
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