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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Author: Learning Scientists A good reminder of effective approaches in a cheerful and accessible format. These resources were created based on research from cognitive psychology from the past few decades. The materials are intended to teach about principles of learning and to provide teachers and students with flexible guiding principles to guide learning and studying. […]
High quality, evidence-based. Videos include: 1) Developing a Mindset for Successful Learning, 2) Beliefs That Make You Fail…Or Succeed, 3) What Students Should Understand About How People Learn, 4) Cognitive Principles for Optimizing Learning, 5) Putting the Principles for Optimizing Learning into Practice, 6) "I Blew the Exam, Now What?"
Outlines the origins of sex- and gender-based analysis (SGBA) and provides gudiance for conducting a SGBA.
RegisteredNurseRN.com provides FREE NCLEX reviews, skills, school tips, & career help for students and nurses.
Author: Registered Nurse RN Aspiring nurses can learn about the different types of nurses, education requirements, and nurse salary statistics. Nursing students can access care plan examples, nursing school study tips, NCLEX review lectures and quizzes, nursing skills, and more. New nurses can access job resources such as interview tips, nursing job resumes, and job […]
In this incisive and practical book, H. Richard Milner IV provides educators with a crucial understanding of how to teach students of color who live in poverty.
Celebrating the contributions that queer students, staff, and scholars make to the academy and have invited our colleagues to consider how they can "Queer" their lectures, course materials, and content.
In this paper, we seek to pluralize and deepen conversations about the ethics of internationalization by illustrating how three global ethics approaches address questions of international student mobility, study and service abroad, and internationalizing the curriculum.
A blog about academic research and writing, which includes many relevant tips and resources. As a PhD student myself, I've used strategies from the blog on many occasions!
Ninety Feet Under--What Poverty Does to People identifies ninety major impacts of poverty on people, stressors that strike in total and all the time.
This free app allows you to track your savings and organize your earnings which has helped me a lot as a student. It helps students with financial literacy.
Author: Barbara Oakley At a time when we are constantly being asked to retrain and reinvent ourselves to adapt to new technologies and changing industries, this book shows us how we can uncover and develop talents we didn’t realize we had—no matter what our age or background. View Book
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