Need suggestions - Studying while driving

[Rionoir, ADN, RN]

Ok hear me out haha I am starting A&P next semester. Currently I am working full time while doing my pre-reqs, and my job involves driving for 6 hours or more some days. I thought it would be really useful if I could come up with a way to maximize my time driving by listening to some study notes for class. I guess I could just record my classes and listen to that, but it seems like there is probably a more efficient use of time out there.

Anyone have any ideas?

[BrendanO, MSN, RN]

Yeah, if you have an electronic version of your textbook available, you can have use text-to-speech to have it read to you (though this can be hard to understand/hilarious for scientific words).

There are lots of A&P and other science course lectures on iTunesU and YouTube. Download them to your phone/iPad and listen to them while you drive.

[Jules A, MSN]

I used to read my notes into a recorder and listen to it in the car. It was like forced study time reading them outloud into the recorder which I suspect also hit more of the senses than just reading quietly would have.

[quarterlifemess, ADN, RN]

I make flashcards on Quizlet. They have a audio feature and use it to quiz myself while stuck in rush hour traffic.

[FutureFertilityNurse]

Wow, I didn't realize that Quizlet had an audio feature! Good to know! There are also a zillion videos on YouTube that I will play while I'm in the car. It really helps!

[nurse1017]

youtube red (if you have it) plugged into your cars audio jack. watch crashcourse :)

[heron, ASN, RN]

She's driving and shouldn't be watching anything but the road!

[alexisbj]

For my speech class, I recorded my speeches into my phone and would listen to them any time I was in the car, until I could say the speech along with the recording and then say it without the recording. This was definitely helpful because like another comment said, its "forced" studying! And since you're driving, there isn't going to be a thousand noises or other distractions (other than the road of course) that may cause you to put your book down while reading. I wish I had thought of this for my anatomy class!

[TuesdaysChild]

I buy VangoNotes on Audible that you play just like an audio book. I also record my notes and play them, but I only do them as a high-level summary, say 20 mins for each chapter. That way, I have to understand the material well in order to know the best way to condense the notes, and they're not too long while I'm driving.