As we are starting our marketing unit we have begun taking some classes in UPC, a local university, and online, through a marketing course offered by Wharton University, to gain some background knowledge. Taking live and online classes allow us to experience two different ways of learning and at the same time we get the opportunity to evaluate them both, based on our own experience, and conclude which suits us better and the most effective.
The Wharton course is very very different from school since it's online. The course contains different lectures where a teacher, through video, explains different topics. Having ONLY a video from a teacher explaining you a somewhat complex topic is N O T easy. While looking at the first lecture video I was a little stressed because I was so confused at times and I had so many questions I wanted to ask the teacher but she was not there. There was so much information that I couldn't process all of it at once. It was hard because she talked about terms and concepts I wasn't familiar with. I feel that the lectures are 10 minutes of information squished in, this is why it's so hard for me to understand. In a classroom usually a teacher has a lesson plan and she/ he covers it as the day goes and he/she works along with their students. In an online course the teacher creates a video with all the information you need to know and posts it so you can see it, instead of working at the pace of their students, the students are working at the pace of the teacher meaning that they need to catch up with him/her.
Thankfully we had Mr. Topf who paused the video periodically and explained some concepts more in detail. When I think about doing this course alone I get anxious. I would have to google so many things instead of asking the teacher for an explanation. In one hand it might seem a little frustrating and hard but now that I really think about it I feel that I would learn the topic so much better since I am taking the time to research and look for definitions I would have the topic more deeply embedded in my head. Processing information, analyzing and understanding is what really makes us remember something instead if we just try to learn it.
However, I think that it is better to use this course as a reasource. We should use the videos as support to explore topics for in depth instead of following up with the course as it is designed. I really liked how our finance unit worked, in the beginning we learned about basic concepts in class but then we were free to explore everything as we did our project. It would be good to still use the course as a source but not depend fully on it. It was provided by one of the best business schools so it has great information therefore it could be a good tool sometimes.
Thankfully we had Mr. Topf who paused the video periodically and explained some concepts more in detail. When I think about doing this course alone I get anxious. I would have to google so many things instead of asking the teacher for an explanation. In one hand it might seem a little frustrating and hard but now that I really think about it I feel that I would learn the topic so much better since I am taking the time to research and look for definitions I would have the topic more deeply embedded in my head. Processing information, analyzing and understanding is what really makes us remember something instead if we just try to learn it.
However, I think that it is better to use this course as a reasource. We should use the videos as support to explore topics for in depth instead of following up with the course as it is designed. I really liked how our finance unit worked, in the beginning we learned about basic concepts in class but then we were free to explore everything as we did our project. It would be good to still use the course as a source but not depend fully on it. It was provided by one of the best business schools so it has great information therefore it could be a good tool sometimes.
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