Tip sheets and guides
Academic Learning: Overcoming Academic Culture Shock.
This module explores learning in different contexts, academic learning at a Canadian institution, and strategies for success.
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 module explores learning in different contexts, academic learning at a Canadian institution, and strategies for success.
Author: Lydia X.Z. Brown This resource provides definitions of words and why they are ableist. As noted on the website, the list “has been compiled and changed over time with input from many different disabled people, people with disabilities, self-advocates, d/Deaf and hard of hearing people, people with chronic illnesses, sick people, mad people, neurodivergent […]
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.
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
Canada’s international student population has tripled over the past decade to 642,000 in 2019. Canada has moved into third place globally behind the United States of America and Australia.
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