Learning the Most

[cookderosa]

Which do you feel teaches you the most? As in you learn the most about the subject? Which teaches the least? Just wondering your thoughts.

From these options:

-Straighterline
-Study.com
-studying for CLEP/DSST, etc.
-Shoomp
-Saylor.org
-Other

My answer is "other" but all my test out credit was CLEP, DSST, and TECEP. The way I learned the best was having a physical book (I prefer REA brand) that covers A-Z everything that I need for a subject- my skeleton. From there, I like to read for general interest, and then deep dive things that I find really interesting or don't understand. (from movies, wikipedia, youtube, learnerorg, khanacademy, etc) I like to understand the "why" behind things, and also the "big picture" if it connects to something else- like US History and American Literature- excellent overlap and both provide context for each other. From there, I'll memorize the minutia / trivial junk (which I hate and happily dump from my brain immediately). In my personal experience, I have always done best on tests that wanted critical thinking and done poorly on tests with tons of memorizing/recall. But, others will have different strengths - so ymmv.

While my KIDS have done it differently by using a lot of ACE credit, I can say as an observer, I wouldn't learn well using any of the resources you listed. I find them interesting, but they don't stick. In order for me to "learn" something, I have to be more active in the process and less spoon-fed.