{"id":248,"date":"2019-09-29T13:15:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T20:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0104\/?p=248"},"modified":"2019-09-30T11:34:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T18:34:09","slug":"time-management-skills-for-online-students-pedagogy-of-abundance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0104\/time-management-skills-for-online-students-pedagogy-of-abundance\/","title":{"rendered":"Time management skills for online students: pedagogy of abundance"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were both looking to learn new strategies that can better help us manage all the added demands of a career, family, friends, and going back to school. New challenges of time management were particularly interesting to us due to the context, in which we are learning now: online education. There was information that we have encountered before, but some of the following insights, strategies, and resources were new to us:<\/p>\n

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Created with Piktochart based on Rampton (2018)<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are also some interesting apps to help online students to manage their time better:\u00a0\u00a0Remember the Milk<\/a>,\u00a0Forest Focus<\/a>, and\u00a0MyLifeOrganized<\/a>. This Ted Talk video by Tim Urban, entitled\u00a0Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator<\/i>\u00a0<\/a>helps students understand why they might be procrastinating.<\/p>\n

This activity led us to experience the impact of the overabundance of sources on our learning first-hand. We encountered a large number of information sources, which included websites, blogs, academic and popular books, images\/infographics, academic articles, youtube videos, and apps, attesting to the various types of content outlined by Weller (2011). Here is a summary of the sources we have found, using a combination of different keywords and search strategies (including quotation marks):<\/p>\n

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Demonstration of an overabundance of search results. Created with Piktochart.<\/span><\/p>\n

There were several challenges that we have experienced with regards to the overabundance of information sources on our learning of new time-management skills. As Weller (2011) points out, \u201cit is no longer the content that it [sic] scarce, but their own time and attention becomes the key scarce resource now\u201d (p. 225). Weller\u2019s application of the economic model of abundance to information and learning amplifies the notion that information is a commodity (ACRL, 2015). This approach to information has important implications on the learning process since according to Weller (2011) there is an impact from \u201csudden and great abundance of learning content and resources has on how we approach learning\u201d.<\/p>\n

Even though it is possible to find a large number of sources of information today in a short amount of time (often a matter of less than a second), it has become continuously challenging for students to find quality information and make sense out of it. In that sense, an overabundance of information has also created many challenges for learning:<\/p>\n