Our Concept
Students are the masters
Learning is about receiving new information and integrating it with previous knowledge to build new schemas. You learn best when these tasks are synchronized. The speed of information flow to your brain should be aligned with the speed at which your brain retrieves previous knowledge from long-term memory and integrates it with the new information. Since no one can master this synchronization but the learner, we believe that lectures are counter-cognitive, especially for big classes or virtual classrooms. On learn-smartly.com, you synchronize your learning and go at your pace.
Fully active learning
If you want to control the information flow into your brain and carefully integrate it with previous knowledge, you need to be active. On learn-smartly.com, you are engaged. You read, research, observe, think, feel, analyze, discover, guess, code, compile, check, debug, set up, implement, measure, and evaluate. The variety of what you do should keep you attended, challenged, and motivated to complete the activity.
Immediate Feedback
In lecture-based teaching, the instructor defines the learning objectives and gives the lecture. You listen and take some notes. To make sure that you reached the learning objectives, you may get a homework assignment that you do and hand over to the instructor. You obtain it marked with feedback later, frequently after you have forgotten many things. To understand the instructor’s comments or marks, you may need to go back to the material and review it. On learn-smartly.com, feedback is an integral part of the learning session, not a post-learning matter. You immediately check what you have done and read what you need to understand your mistake..
Embedded Scaffolding
Learning can become difficult. You frequently need someone to answer your question or clarify something for you. Without this, you may get stuck and lack the confidence or motivation to continue. The content on learn-smartly.com is prepared uniquely and specifically to minimize such experiences. Up to 30 hours were spent on every activity to make it interesting, challenging, but doable. Still, if you struggle with some question, don’t worry! Try your best to answer it, check your answer, and read the feedback! It will be your scaffold to continue.
Technology? Sure, but Pedagogy first
Today’s technology has enormous features and capabilities. What is the optimal combination thereof that truly facilitates learning? This is a question that needs dedication. At learn-smartly.com, technology is not too much and not too little. It is as much as you need to learn better.
