Author: Cold Turkey Software, Inc.

Cold turkey is a software that you can download on your laptop/pc that blocks websites to eliminate distractions.

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Author: Tara Brach

Compassion fully blossoms when we actively offer care to ourselves. To help people address feelings of insecurity and unworthiness, I often introduce mindfulness and compassion through a meditation I call the RAIN of Self-Compassion. The acronym RAIN, first coined about 20 years ago by Michele McDonald, is an easy-to-remember tool for practicing mindfulness.

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Author: Ursala Wingate

One of my favourite articles to offer a critical perspective on our profession. This paper argues that the widespread approach to enhancing student learning through separate study skills courses is ineffective, and that the term ‘study skills’ itself has misleading implications, which are counterproductive to learning.

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Author: McGill University

This guide supports the design, development, and delivery of workshops at a university level. There are different sections that cover topics like planning and creating learning outcomes, activities and facilitation ideas, and plans for reflection and closing a workshop.

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Author: Tina Kafka

The table shows a wide variety of currently available instruments that aim to assess non-cognitive characteristics that support college student success.

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Author: TRSM Academic Success Centre

Six tips for group work success.

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Author: York University

Find the resources and supports to successfully navigate being an online learner.

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Author: Sheilagh Grills

In this paper, the author explains supplementary workshops developed to target fundamental skills with course-specific examples.

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Author: N/A

managing test anxiety

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Author: Stephen Kaplan

Turning to nature as a way to nourish focus. This resource will broaden the basket of strategies that practitioners and students can turn to, particularly in response to distractedness.

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