Advantages - Learning for long-term memory:
The profession of a nurse brings with it a high degree of responsibility and the necessary knowledge of skin anatomy, hygiene, legal guidelines, materials and much more. In order to impart this knowledge completely and, above all, to internalise it, no weekend is sufficient. Because in this short time, the course instructors are anxious to impart as much knowledge as possible, which, however, will only reach your short-term memory at best. Here it is decided what you consider important or unimportant. It only enters the long-term memory after about 12 hours. But if you are continuously bombarded with knowledge for several hours, only a fraction of it will make it into your long-term memory . Thus, valuable knowledge is lost and you have to deal with it again. A good example is the "first aid course" that each of us was allowed to do. If you think back and are honest, what did you remember from it despite the practical exercises? Not really much, right?
And right here lies the greatest advantage of a distance learning course...
- You have the extensive knowledge at your disposal 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
- you can study at your own pace anywhere without additional costs such as train ticket or hotel fee,
- die Kenntnisse Lerneinheit für Lerneinheit verinnerlichen und
- internalise the knowledge unit by unit and repeat the practical exercises until you are 100% sure that you can apply your knowledge perfectly.
Furthermore, an online course is …
- cheaper than a seminar, because we do not need to rent premises
- reliable, because it is not dependent on a minimum number of participants
- private, because only the chat partner learns about your problems and questions without other participants
being able to listen
- flexible, because you can easily study whenever you want, without having to
spend your weekend.
Disadvantages and how we counteract them:
Of course, there are always two sides to a coin. That is why we do not only want to point out the advantages and conceal the disadvantages. Because we are well aware of these, which is why we try to counteract them.
Learning in a group is better
Most people prefer to learn in groups because it is more fun and you can discuss content together. We are aware of this. That's why we have not only created a Facebook exchange group, but also offer a discounted group course where you can learn and save together with 2 friends.
On-the-shelf phenomenon
With many online courses, you receive numerous PDFs with learning content and exercises via email. You download them, skim through them and then they get forgotten in a folder somewhere on your computer. To prevent your documents and notes from suffering the same fate, the Piercer distance learning school created a kind of virtual seminar room for you, your online campus, which you can access at any time after booking your course. Here you can collect what you have learned, write in your virtual notebook and submit your assignments.
A communicative one-way road
Communication in a seminar is more dynamic, i.e. you ask a question and get your answers directly without having to wait a long time for an email. To ensure dynamic communication in our distance learning course
we offer you an exchange either daily via WhatsApp or twice a week via live chat with one of our lecturers. This means that no question remains unanswered.
The inner couch potato
To successfully complete a distance learning course, you need a high degree of initiative and self-motivation. In the weekend course, your course instructor motivates you. So that you don't lose your enthusiasm, you can always check your learning progress on your online campus and thus continuously strengthen your motivation.
