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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Teaching during times of potential disruption requires creative and flexible thinking about how instructors can support students in achieving essential core course learning objectives. This document offers suggestions for instructors in Stanford University’s PWR and Thinking Matters looking to continue offering a student-centered learning experience in a remote or online learning environment.
Author: Lucy Macnaught, Mark Bassett, Vanessa van der Ham, John Milne & Chris Jenkin It’s about academic literacy specialists potentially ‘getting stuck’ teaching in a limited number of tertiary courses and programs. The article explores issues and options for co-creating and then gradually ‘handing over’ literacy teaching to lecturers. It also investigates relationships between what is taught […]
Today, higher education is recognized as an important tool for capacity building and assisting Aboriginal communities to achieve their goals of self-determination and self-government. This paper presents some of the findings of a qualitative study conducted in a midsized Canadian postsecondary institution
Dr. Tricia Seifert's blog is an ongoing home to guest writers who share their insights about learning, student development, and research.
This app allows students to consolidate all of their notes and create flashcards. I saw this as a top recommended resource on social media (TikTok) for studying.
A study plan allows you to consider how much time you may need for different courses, distribute your review time, and ensure that all courses get some attention. A study plan reduces stress, helps you keep on track during the intense exam period, and prioritizes health and balancing activities.
Author: Study Stack LLC Study Stack is a study tool that makes learning, memorizing information, and preparing for an exam, a fun, stress-free, and enjoyable experience. It offers existing flash cards and study games for different subjects. View Website
Author: York University Find the resources and supports to successfully navigate being an online learner. View Website
This guide offers you an introductory video and three modules to help you engage in successful group work. Each module, shown below, contains a short video and a section titled Tips, Tools & Templates offering practical tips and downloadable checklists, activities, templates and more to help you engage in effective group work as part of coursework in a university context.
Some Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America — it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.
This website allows you to input a text and read it at any speed you would like (it's interesting to see how much you can comprehend when there are words flashing quickly). I've used this for some long, simple readings and it allows me to get through them quickly.
This is at once a playful text with a serious purpose: to provide the reader with the theoretical lenses to analyze the dynamics of social class.
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