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Coursera: What's Your Study Strategy?
Editor’s Note: Pamela Fox is Coursera’s Lead Student Team Engineer. Last week, thanks to the course calendar, I realized that my final exam for Ariely’s class on Irrational Behavior was due the night before a Google I/O talk that I would be giving the next day about Coursera - frankly, I was a little stressed. I’d never made it so far in a Coursera class, and I was determined to make it to the end! I freaked out: how was I going to study for the exam? I love learning new things, but I forget them quickly when I move onto the next cool new thing to learn, and I didn’t have the time or patience to rewatch every lecture. I needed to review the materials somehow, but I never took any notes. Fortunately, I have tens of thousands of classmates, and a number of them *did* take notes, and they shared them in our forums. Our always-helpful TA wrote up a post with links to all the student-sourced resources to make them easy to find, so I opened them up…