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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This is a comprehensive set of learning tips and advice to share with students. I placed them in the "online learning" category as there is no one generalized learning strategy category, but webpages with in this resource go beyond online learning in terms of scope and strategy.
A program built around community, to teach you about your brains, how to learn, and how to design learning with science!
This course gives you easy access to the invaluable learning techniques used by experts in art, music, literature, math, science, sports, and many other disciplines. You’ll learn about how the brain uses two very different learning modes and how it encapsulates (“chunks”) information. You’ll also cover illusions of learning, memory techniques, dealing with procrastination, and best practices shown by research to be most effective in helping you master tough subjects.
This book explains: Why sometimes letting your mind wander is an important part of the learning process; How to avoid “rut think” in order to think outside the box; Why having a poor memory can be a good thing; The value of metaphors in developing understanding, and; Why procrastination is the enemy of problem-solving
Based on one of the most popular open online courses in the world, this course gives you easy access to the learning techniques used by experts in art, music, literature, math, science, sports, and many other disciplines. No matter what your current skill level, using these approaches can help you master new topics, change your thinking and improve your life.
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'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!
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.
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.
Author: Chris Bailey Hyperfocus provides profound insights into how you can best take charge of your attention to achieve a greater sense of purpose and productivity throughout the day. View Book
Author: R.C. Atkinson, R.M. Shiffrin This chapter presents a general theoretical framework of human memory and describes the results of a number of experiments designed to test specific models that can be derived from the overall theory. View Book
How Learning Works: A Playbook unpacks the science of how students learn and translates that knowledge into promising principles or practices that can be implemented in the classroom or utilized by students on their own learning journey.
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