Student Resources
Online Learning Tips
Adapting to Online Learning for Students
Clicking a category heading will reveal online links and resources. There are many such sites available, but as a starting point, the following sites cover a wide range of topics. Remember that these are written for students at many different levels; you may have to explore to find what's useful for you.
Articles:
- 8 Tips for Effective Online Learning
- Tips for studying online and at home for university students
- 5 Tips for Online Student Learning Success
- Tips for Successful Online Learning
Videos:
- Elearn@USM for students
- Study Tips to Succeed as an Online Student
- Online Learning Tips for Students: How To Succeed at Remote Learning
- The Do’s and Don’ts of Remote Learning
- Online Learning Tips for Students!
- How to Succeed in a Remote or Online Class in any Subject
- How to Stay Organized for Distance Learning
Exam Preparations
- USM Library
- Exam Study Tips
- Managing Exam Anxiety and Panic
- Test Anxiety
- Overcoming Test Anxiety
- Study Habits & Test Anxiety
- Study Environment Analysis
- Control of Study Environment
Critical Thinking
Motivational
- Motivation Speech: "Dare To Be Different"
- Are you willing to ask?
- Motivation and Concentration: University of Minnesota
- Motivation and Concentration: Simon Frazer University
- How to Motivate Yourself
- 10 Terrific Self Motivating Tips
- Motivating Yourself
- Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
Learning Skills
- How to Improve Learning Skills
- Learning Strategies
- 7 Secrets to Improve Your Ability to Learn (For Students of All Ages)
- Developing a Project & Choosing a Mentor
- Monitoring Progress & Review
Writing Skills
- Writing Skills
- Planning Your Writing
- Planning and Preparing to Write Assignments
- Practice Your Writing
- Understanding Your Assignment
- Prewriting
- Content Organization
- Writing Introductions
- Body Paragraphs
- Thesis Development
- Using Evidences in Writing
- Summary and Analysis
- Writing Conclusions
- Common Stylistic Concerns
Listening Skills
- Why Listen?
- Listening Skills
- Self Help-Listening Skills
- Keys to Better Listening
- 10 Ways to Improve Your Listening Skills
- Effective Listening Skills
- Study Tip – How to Practice Listening English
- Practice Your Listening
Communication Skills
- The Basics of Communicating with Others
- Ways of Effective Communication
- Effective Communication
- Improve Your Communication Skills
- How to Develop Good Communication Skills
- The Seven Challenges Workbook – Communication Skills for Success
- Improving Adult English Language Learners’ Speaking Skills
- Effective Communication and Assertiveness
- 9 Healthy Ways to Communicate
- Improving Verbal Skills
- Improving Communication Skills
- Assertiveness
- The Language of Assertiveness
- Fighting the Fair Way
- Problem Solving
Emotional Quotient
- 10 Ways to Enhance Your Emotional Intelligence
- Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
- Emotional Intelligence – Developing Strong “People Skills”
- Assessing Your Emotional Intelligence
- Preventing Perfectionism
- A Guide to Understanding and Coping with Compassion Fatigue
Time Management
- Top 10 time management skills for college students from a Stanford entrepreneur
- Time Management Made Easy
- Time Management
- Time and project management; problem solving
- Time Management
- Overcoming Procrastination
- Time Management
- Review: My Daily Schedule
- Review: My Weekly Schedule
- Scheduling your School Calendar
- Review: Setting Goals
- Review: Create a To-do List
- Avoid Procrastination
- Developing Self-discipline
- Time Management Tips for Busy College Students
- How to Improve Your Time Management Skills
Reading and Note Taking
- The Open University
- Note Taking Strategies
- Note taking skills from lectures and readings
- Theories of Reading
- Tips for Effective Reading
- Six Steps to Effective Reading
- Practice Your Reading
Academic Integrity and Plagiarism
- What is plagiarism and citing electronic resources?
- PENN University
- Purdue OWL: Avoiding Plagiarism
- Plagiarism – UNSW Australia
- Academic Integrity and Plagiarism – UBC
- Academic Integrity and Plagiarism – University of Illinois
- Paraphrasing & Citation
Handling Stress
- Are you totally stressed out?
- Managing Stress
- Oxford Brookes University - Managing Stress
- University of Adelaide
- 4 Ways to Overcome the Fear of Failure
- Overcoming Failure
- The Four Room Apartment Model of Change
- Stress Management: How to Reduce, Prevent and Cope with Stress
- Managing Stress: A Wellness Lifestyle Approach
- Tiredness
Presentation Skills
- Presentation Skills
- The University of Queensland
- Giving an Academic Talk
- Everything I Know About Presentations, I Learned in Theatre School
- Scott Berkun on Public Speaking (video)
- Public Speaking Articles (Toastsmasters International)
- Toastmasters Podcast
- Overcoming Presentation Anxiety
Teamwork
- Group Decision Making
- Group roles: maximizing group performance
- Teamwork Skills: Being an Effective Group Member
- Meeting strategies to help prepare students for group work
- Making group contracts
Maths and Science
English
- Start Learning English! – Basic
- Start Learning English! – Intermediate
- English Language (ESL) Learning Online
- Interesting Things for ESL/EFL Students
- English Language Games
- Thesaurus
- Common Errors in English Usage Daily Entry
- Grammar - Runs-ons and Fragments
- Grammar - Agreement Errors
- Grammar - Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Elements
- Grammar - Pronoun Reference
- Grammar - Parallelism
- Grammar - Mixed Constructions
- Grammar - Misplaced Modifiers
- Grammar - Passive Voice
- Grammar - Gender Neutral Language
- Punctuation - Commas
- Punctuation - Semicolons and Colons
- Punctuation - Dashes, Parentheses, Brackets, Ellipses
- Punctuation - Quotation Marks
Extra Links
- http://library.leeds.ac.uk/skills-students
- http://sass.queensu.ca/learningstrategies/
- http://www.kent.ac.uk/learning/resources/resources.html
- http://success.oregonstate.edu/asc-success-resources
- http://www.udayton.edu/ltc/learningresources/learningandstudy/learning_tools.php
- http://www.dcu.ie/studentlearning/student-learning-topics.shtml
- http://cll.mcmaster.ca/resources/resources_by_topic.html