Learn Like a Pro: Science-Based Tools to Become Better at Anything
Building on insights from neuroscience and cognitive psychology, Oakley and Schewe give you a crash course to improve your ability to learn, no matter what the subject is. Through their decades of writing, teaching, and research on learning, the authors have developed deep connections with experts from a vast array of disciplines.
Korbit AI Tutor for Data Science
Korbit’s award-winning AI tutor will guide you on your personalized data science learning journey as you navigate through projects, videos, practice problems, Python programming exercises and more!
iProcrastinate Podcast
A podcast database about procrastination, run by the Procrastination Research Group (PRG). Their focus: “researching the breakdown in volitional action we commonly call procrastination. They seek to understand why we become our own worst enemy at times with needless, voluntary delay”. The research and site originates at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), but represents contributions and research about procrastination from all over the world.
Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology.
The techniques include elaborative interrogation, self-explanation, summarization, highlighting (or underlining), the keyword mnemonic, imagery use for text learning, rereading, practice testing, distributed practice, and interleaved practice.
Assignment planner
Author: Queens SASS Helps students breakdown large and complex assignments into manageable steps, offers mini deadlines, and reminds them of associated tasks along the way. View Website
Assignment Calculator
Author: Seneca College This calculator will help you break down your assignment or project into manageable steps. Follow the guidelines for the assignment as discussed in class and consult with your Professor/Instructor if you have any specific questions about the assignment dates. View Website
Assignment calculator
An assignment calculator that includes job-seeking tasks (ie. cover letter, resume-writing). It is so helpful to see an assignment calculator that honours the time it takes to plan and apply for jobs.
Arrowsmith: Strengthening Learning Capacities
The Arrowsmith Program is based on the application of neuroscientific research and for 40 years we have worked to help students strengthen the weak cognitive capacities underlying a range of learning difficulties.
Academic Learning: Overcoming Academic Culture Shock.
This module explores learning in different contexts, academic learning at a Canadian institution, and strategies for success.
A (pseudo) Randomized Control Experiment about Teaching Effective Learning Strategies
In this episode, Megan and Cindy talk about their massive research project at Washburn University investigating the effectiveness of an intervention to teach first-year college students effective study strategies. The Project is huge, but asks an important question: how can we teach students to utilize strategies that we know are effective on their own to improve learning and academic success. We know these strategies work, we just don’t know a whole lot about the best way to help students learn about them and then transfer the use of the strategies to their own studying.
98 Excel tips every user should master
Author: TechRepublic This article is a landing page and has many links to helpful articles on Excel. I used this resource to help me create Pivot Tables on Excel. Read Article
21 Savage Student Learning Tips
Author: Leonard Geddes A reconsideration of note-taking practice, process, and purpose. Leonard is a long-time friend of LSAC and is so generous with all his knowledge-sharing. Watch Video