Perhaps you are a manager who would like to support your staff as they broaden their professional knowledge. Perhaps you are developing asynchronous or course-embedded content for students or faculty to use. Perhaps you are collecting training material for peer helpers you supervise, or perhaps you are seeking a resource on a particular topic to share with a student you’re helping. We hope you find what you need in the sections below!
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The Learning Centre Podcast Welcome to the Learning Centre - Douglas College (LC-DC) Podcast! Each episode brings you quick, practical tips on learning, studying, and student life. Episodes are short, easy to follow, and always come with transcripts and notes so you can review at your own pace.
Accessing higher education shouldn't be hindered by a visual impairment. Yet, for many visually impaired students, the college experience presents a unique set of obstacles.
Claude M. Steele offers a vivid first-person account of the research that supports his groundbreaking conclusions on stereotypes and identity. Shedding new light on American social phenomena from racial and gender gaps and lays out a plan for mitigating these “stereotype threats” and reshaping American identities
Learn to take ownership of your success, overcome self-doubt, and banish the thought patterns that undermine your ability to feel—and act—as bright and capable as others already know you are with this award-winning book by Valerie Young.
This book will help students design effective learning plans, employ new strategies, recognize learning traps, improve recall, and realize better academic performance through test-taking and paper-writing strategies.
Dr. Ungar explores reals lives, across age and culture, and discovers that the answers lie in the people and the support systems around us.
Spelling is challenging for students with LDs, and improving outcomes is a priority. This synthesis examines the effects of spelling and reading interventions on spelling outcomes for students K - 12.
Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy argues that "power posing" can boost feelings of confidence, and might have an impact on our chances for success.
Dr. Janina Fisher, international expert on trauma, has spent over 40 years working with survivors, helping them to navigate their journey. This book offers strategies, diagrams, and worksheets.
This is the story of Barbara Arrowsmith Young. With courage, inventiveness, and resilience, she found ways to actually change her brain and improve her skills.
In The Body Keeps the Score, van der Klok uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust.
In this provocative book based on cutting-edge research, Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir show that scarcity creates a distinct psychology for everyone struggling to manage with less than they need.