- Find people on your course that can help you and that you can help. Teaching something you know to classmates helps you learn. There is a saying “one teach, two learn” and it is true.
- Try to review the content of a lecture before attending the lecture. Even if it is a fast 5 minute skim of the material it will help you
- Try to get an overview of the course at the start, again a quick skim might take an hour or so, but the content will be more familiar when you get around to it.
- For maths and science Khan academy is really useful.
- There is a short course on Coursera called ‘Learning how to learn’ that includes some of the above points, it is worth checking out.