Avid learners now feel like there is a smorgasbord laid out before them. It’s like having teachers and trainers crowded into your den. Yet, no sooner do you buy one e-learning material, start reading, and another enticement grabs your attention that is suppose to be even better, even grander. The flow of new material never seems to end -- a high percentage poorly written.

Online learning is now starting its climb up product maturity bell curve. This means that buyer’s dollars are voting, demanding, more well thought-out and written material. As an avid on-line reader, I let out a deep sigh of relief and look forward for this next wave to occur across board.

Studying on a computer screen requires different uses of mind and eyes. Normally we read in a scanning method when browsing Net. Now, with studying, reading will require more deliberate and careful. This increases material understanding, comprehension, critical evaluation and practical application.

Adults who have been away from educational studying for awhile, will need to review again scope of skills needed to study again. Ones they learned back in school. For some just thinking about studying again makes them crawl under bed covers. Those with less break time since their studying days, skills will return much quicker. If good study skills were not previously learned, there will be some struggle or frustration that might be experiences while learning correct methods and creating new habits. For them it will be like creating a cake from scratch instead from a package mix.

Note taking

Save your printer ink. Don't print out material, rely on your notes and your memory. Taking ink-created notes is just as important with e-Learning as in any other type of learning environment. Yes, I did recommend using good old ink and paper. Note taking isn't just set aside because learning material is online. Taking handwritten notes is a key element in moving new short-term information into long-term accessibility.

If you would like to have a checkpoint or a measuring stick on what you are retaining, take note taking to next level. You will want to preview material, as mentioned next, then begin reading and taking notes. After this, take a break, return, and then type up your notes. While you are typing add information that you remember from material or what you have learned from other sources. Add whatever is swirling in your mind. This is best way to measure what you have retained and what is still missing. If there is something in your notes that doesn't make sense, then you will know what you need to reread and start process again within that smaller scope. You can even ask further in-depth questions (see below).

Preview

Imagine a huge library with every book about every person, place, thing and event in world. A place that has recorded everything that has happened since beginning of time and movement. Everything, meaning creation of a pencil through birth, development and growth of every person and every other living thing. What if we stored all of this information like books or blueprints in a place? That would mean that while I am writing this and while you are reading it, another event is being added to our books. The event of you reading this article is now being recorded and stored into your personal blueprint, your individual book of your life. That would mean that this library is very dynamic and that it records a world of information and stores it in a very static way. Once recorded, it is there forever filed away in a huge memory bank. This is what we call "The Matrix". Sounds a little scary in a way, doesn't it? To think that everything you do is recorded as an event and then stored away forever in a book!

Over one hundred years ago, world renowned Swiss Psychiatrist, Dr. Carl Jung developed a theory about a giant library that he called "the Collective Unconscious." But how did he discover this? Dr Carl Jung was always fascinated by dreams. Through out his life he studied his own dreams and dreams of his patients. He extracted universal symbols from dreams and uncovered their meaning. Once he discovered meaning of symbols within context of dream, he held answer to their problems; He understood crux of their conflict. This would serve as an extremely valuable tool for a doctor to cure complex psychosis of his patients. Dr. Jung was considered a miracle worker in his day (and even today). He could cure most difficult cases and then he could explain how they had become ill. He knew more about his patients then they knew about themselves. How could he do this? He never claimed to be psychic or clairvoyant.