Hello, everyone, and welcome back to this mammoth interactive course in this lecture, we're going
to tell you how you can learn online effectively.
If you're new to learning online and online courses, this will be a great lecture for you to really
learn how you can maximize learning online because you'll find that learning online can be faster,
more efficient and more results oriented than any other kind of online learning.
We put this lecture in front of every course here at Mammoth Interactive.
So if you've already seen it, feel free to skip and jump right into the course projects.
Let's start by looking at why you should learn online.
First of all, is that your teachers who teach online courses are going to be active industry leaders.
That means that they are currently in the field.
They are building projects.
They are working at tech companies or whatever field of online course you're taking.
And this makes them highly efficient because they don't have that much time to build online courses.
They're doing it on the side, which means that they're going to teach you in the most efficient way
possible, and they're going to teach you what companies need today.
They're going to teach you relevant skills, not something from 20 years ago when they were hired,
but instead something from today, the most in-demand, hirable topics and skills that technologies
and companies are looking for.
Another benefit of learning online is that the cost of an online course is a fraction of the price of
other methods.
For example, an online course can be a fraction of the price of a college course or a book or a workshop.
Online courses are extremely cheap.
You can get hundreds of hours in some courses for just a fraction of a price of a college course as
well.
You can rewatch any time.
This is not a live course unless you're doing a bootcamp.
Most courses are rewatchable.
Even boot camps are recordable, which means you can watch the recording.
That means that you can have the same content over and over again.
You can also learn at your own pace, meaning you can speed up videos.
You can slow down videos.
You can start at a project.
Or you can start at the fundamentals depending on how much knowledge you have.
You can start in the middle of a course or at the end of a beginning on top of that.
You also get all the source code along with the actual video content of an online course.
Similarly, you'll also get all the assets and the art assets, any PDF resources, you'll get it all
in your online course as well.
There will be a community of students just like you whom you can chat with in the comments of the course
in the Q&A.
You can have a community in each course that you take another benefit of online learning and why you
should.
Online learning is that you don't have to commute.
You can save so much time commuting because you don't have to commute to a location.
Online courses are virtual, which means you can take them from anywhere.
You can go to a coffee shop.
You can do it at home.
You can learn anywhere, and you can even learn offline if you download videos or if you're using something
like an app with free downloaded content already for you.
And again, you can learn at your own pace.
You don't have to wait for all of the tedious work that might come at the beginning or end of a class
where you have to take attendance.
You have to give a welcome.
There is much less of that dull time in an online course.
It's much more efficient and you don't have to take public transport or transport your body to a physical
location.
Another reason why online learning is so effective is that you build a project immediately instead of
spending a lot of time on theory and concepts.
Online courses, especially here at Mammoth Interactive, are focused on project building.
That means that you're going to be focused on hands on learning where you start building a project you've
learned through failing and you learn while you build your portfolio.
This is the best way to learn because you're actually experiencing what your life will be like on the
job.
And not only that, but you build projects that you can profit from that you can show off in your portfolio
because projects are the best way to get that coding interview by your dream company.
By building projects, you can get ahead of your class.
If you are doing a blended learning approach and you can excel in your class because you have projects
and learning, it only increases your knowledge exponentially.
That means that the more you learn, you just get better at your class.
And you'll get better at what you're learning and you're learning increases at an exponential curve.
You can also become a success story because many of the projects you can build, you can release, you
can publish and you never know they could become a huge success.
You'll also be building a portfolio and projects are better than certificates.
Nowadays, companies are looking more at what you have built, what you have released, what you have
on GitHub, rather than what you have as a certificate or a degree, because those are just titles,
but they aren't proof.
Another benefit of learning online is that you learn the most horrible and relevant skills because universities
and books, they are slow to update.
Just think about all the iterations that have to go into to publish your book, you have to make version
after version.
You have to go through the editor, through the publisher, not even just the author.
And universities are similar because you have to iterate through the course curriculum.
Any time the university wants to update it, it has to check it with the board, and there is a lot
of checking that has to be done before a new course can be released at the university.
This is completely different to an online course where you don't need to have all these different checks.
Make sure that a course meets standards the university has set, or that you have gone over version
after version of a book to check for the typos.
Online courses are much faster to release because as soon as a new technology, a new tech stack comes
out, you can learn it online.
You can learn the hottest skills first because online courses are much easier to produce.
In this way, you'll become of a higher value as an employee, and you'll become unique because you'll
have the newest skills that few people will have, and often being the first one to market the first
one to have a new skill that can put you in a really good position to be able to pivot, to be able
to get a raise, it will make you a much higher value employee.
Now, some tips for online learning.
Let's jump into tips how you can learn online effectively.
Number one is to Google.
Google is your best friend when you're online learning because it's just common for every learner,
especially if you're learning something like software development or if you're in the tech field, you're
learning a new tech stack.
Google is going to be your best friend because Google will always have an answer, and many people will
have asked the same question that you are looking for.
Don't be afraid to Google.
Typically, beginners are worried about Googling.
They want to figure out everything for themselves or when they get sick.
They have no idea what to do.
But Googling you can often find the answer to your question, especially if you're learning something
like programming.
Google has many helpful communities like Stack Overflow, and it is very normal to Google.
Even software engineers day to day are Googling all day long to get answers.
So as an online learner, especially if you're new to online learning, we definitely recommend Googling
to get answers.
Another recommendation?
Another tip?
A word of wisdom for learning online effectively is to finish what you start.
It can be very tempting to begin 10 different projects and never finish anything.
But there's several reasons why that is ineffective, and it's very common to see this in beginners.
But instead, you want to really push yourself to finish what you start, push yourself to go deeper
into a project.
Many, many people struggle to finish projects, so by finishing a project, you will stand out and
you will build a solid portfolio.
You'll be able to push yourself to learn harder and harder skills, because if you start 10 projects,
you're probably using the same exact skills for all 10 projects.
But if you actually push yourself to finish a project, that means you have to push your skills to learn
more and more complex topics, more complex problems that you have to solve as you finish a project.
You also learn the entire production lifecycle when you finish a project, you'll not only learn just
the beginning phase, but you'll also learn different iterations how to iterate, how to publish, how
to release, how to do not only the front end, but perhaps the back end if you're building something
like a website or an application.
You also prove your competency when you finish what you start because you'll prove to yourself and to
employers that you'll be able to build complex projects.
Another tip for online learning how to learn effectively when you're learning online is to learn what
you need as you go.
Don't try to learn everything at once.
Don't try to learn, for example, all of JavaScript at once if you're learning the JavaScript programming
language.
Instead, learn what you need to finish your project.
Learn step by step because this way you'll learn applicable skills and you'll see results.
You won't just be learning theory or concepts you.
Actually, be able to learn through results and you'll get the visual feedback as you build, always
keep learning technologies are going to keep changing and iterating.
The half life of a skill these days is approximately five years.
That means you always have to keep learning.
So just accept that learning is going to be a part of your life.
And the people who accept this sooner are the ones that are going to be the most successful.
Push yourself to build more complex projects and learn what you need to build them.
Keep growing your skills step by step, like climbing a staircase.
Again, learn the basics that you need to start a project.
Don't try to master everything at once, just through theory or just through learning exercises.
Try to learn by starting a project to learn the basics and then slowly iterate your knowledge.
Aim for results rather than just studying for hours on end.
Aim to have some kind of project or proof at the end of your study session.
And don't forget, failing is the best way to learn.
Getting errors, bugs failing.
It's the best way to learn.
Having a hundred questions that you have to Google because you don't know how to do anything that is
the best way to learn.
So don't be afraid or frustrated.
If you start failing in your project, if you can't do something, if you can't achieve something that
is the best way to learn.
Just remember that Google will always have an answer.
If you can't find an answer, that just means you need to google some more.
Let's talk about some student success stories to inspire you and your online learning journey.
Online students have had a lot of success.
You don't just have to go through the traditional route anymore.
As you'll see with these success stories, you can have success with employment, with being an entrepreneur
all through learning online.
For example, one online student got a job at a bank out competing candidates with computer science
bachelor's degrees, and they were 100 percent self-taught online.
That means that they were able to get the job that people with degrees had by teaching themselves programming
100 percent online.
Another student success story is a students first app charted at the App Store.
The first project they ever built because they were learning through project based learning.
It charted the App Store, and it was bought by a global game developer for $100000.
As you can see, building projects can lead to massive success.
Another student success story is an independent app developer who makes an app every weekend for a weekly
$1000 profit.
That means that they just have to work on the weekends making an app every weekend, and they'll be
able to profit a thousand dollars.
We've had this kind of success.
Another school success story is a game developer who made a viral online game and is now a retired billionaire.
These students, these stories happen all the time, and they are the results of online learning and
project based learning.
Thank you all for watching this course on how to learn online effectively.
You now know the benefits of learning online and some applicable actionable skills and techniques that
you can apply to learn online effectively.
Don't forget to watch this lecture again if you ever need to remember how to learn online effectively
and how to keep going when you're stuck in the mud.
Now it's time to begin this mammoth interactive course.
Thank you all for watching and enjoy the next lecture.