I have experienced this first-hand. Let me give you a little anecdote:
I took Chemistry Honors as a sophomore in high school. Now a sophomore in college/senior in high school, I'm again taking Chem since it's required as part of my gen-ed. I basically never come to the packed lecture hall as I see it as a waste of my time to listen to a repeat of a class I took 2 years ago.
I print off class lectures and view the khan vids and it's pretty easy. Yet this hasn't really translated over to my performance in tests. I think a culprit may be that I gloss over bits when I feel this all has a "I know this stuff" feel.
Compare this to my biology honors course as a freshman in high school as well as again as a freshman in college/junior in high school again. I didn't know about khan academy then, and took notes in class for things that I wasn't sure about (it was all still essentially review --props to my great HS freshman Bio teachers). I also studied outside if class and did practice problems during my free hour right after class. Aced the class and more effort was put towards the learning. Any misconceptions/confusion was resolved with either a quick google search or question at the tutoring center for homework help at college.
I plan to try and see if the physics course I'll be taking soon will produce different results, since I haven't taken a physics class yet ever, so it'll be pretty much all new. I plan on first studying with mainly Khan Academy only and seeing the results, then with other more "traditional" methods.
I'm mainly testing to see whether the newness factor has any effect on my ability to acquire and retain the content just from videos.
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I have experienced this first-hand. Let me give you a little anecdote:
I took Chemistry Honors as a sophomore in high school. Now a sophomore in college/senior in high school, I'm again taking Chem since it's required as part of my gen-ed. I basically never come to the packed lecture hall as I see it as a waste of my time to listen to a repeat of a class I took 2 years ago.
I print off class lectures and view the khan vids and it's pretty easy. Yet this hasn't really translated over to my performance in tests. I think a culprit may be that I gloss over bits when I feel this all has a "I know this stuff" feel.
Compare this to my biology honors course as a freshman in high school as well as again as a freshman in college/junior in high school again. I didn't know about khan academy then, and took notes in class for things that I wasn't sure about (it was all still essentially review --props to my great HS freshman Bio teachers). I also studied outside if class and did practice problems during my free hour right after class. Aced the class and more effort was put towards the learning. Any misconceptions/confusion was resolved with either a quick google search or question at the tutoring center for homework help at college.
I plan to try and see if the physics course I'll be taking soon will produce different results, since I haven't taken a physics class yet ever, so it'll be pretty much all new. I plan on first studying with mainly Khan Academy only and seeing the results, then with other more "traditional" methods. I'm mainly testing to see whether the newness factor has any effect on my ability to acquire and retain the content just from videos.