The Learning Centres provide a range of free workshops which help you develop skills and strategies to enhance your learning. Get a certificate of attendance if you attend FIVE Academic Skills Workshops in a semester. This would be a valuable addition to any resume/ portfolio.
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Strong Start for Success
Plan Your Semester
Learn how to create a written semester schedule that includes important information about assignments, tests, and other deadlines.
Getting Started on Your Assignment
This workshop covers strategies for interpreting the question, guidelines for research, applying the assessment criteria and initial assignment planning.
Get Your Project Done
Learn strategies to tackle your assignments and projects.
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Building Effective Study Habits
Master Your Memory
Learn how to fine-tune your memory and apply strategies for recalling more of what you learn
Strategic Time Management
Find out ways that you can be the most effective and efficient as you strategically make the most of the time that you have.
Note Taking & Summarizing
In this workshop you will learn a variety of effective note taking strategies to help you learn better.
Say No To Procrastination
In this workshop you will learn strategies for overcoming procrastination and getting back on track.
Exam Preparation Strategies
Use this workshop to develop your study and self-testing techniques before your next test. Get prepared!
Reading Texts
(Online Self-Paced Learning)
Learn the techniques of reading textbooks, articles, research studies and manuals effectively at your own pace.
Time Management for Busy Students (Online Self-Paced Learning)
Learn strategies to becoming a stronger and more efficient learner at anytime and anywhere you like.
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Improve Your Writing
Effective Editing
Learn strategies for finding and correcting your mistakes before you submit your assignments.
Quote, Paraphrase and Summarize
In this workshop, you will learn how to integrate information from your readings while maintaining your own distinctive voice in your paper.
Writing “in your own words” with Academic Integrity
Learn how to integrate information from your readings while maintaining your own distinctive voice in your paper.
Writing your Business Report
Learn how to integrate the information you find in your research into a well-organized business report.
Polishing and Editing Your Business Report
Learn self-editing skills necessary to improve the quality of your business reports.
Effective Editing
(Online Self-Paced Learning)
Learn strategies for finding and correcting your mistakes before you submit your assignments, at your own pace.
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Science Skills
Writing Right In Biology
Learn strategies for finding and correcting your mistakes before you submit your assignments.
Study Smarter In Biology
Learn strategies for deeper-level thinking that will help you to study more effectively in Biology as you go through the semester and prepare for your exams
Math for Drug Dosage Calculations: Oral and Parenteral Medications
Numeracy competence, in drug-dosage calculations, is an essential nursing skill that is important in assuring the safe administration of medication. This workshop is intended to help you understand and become better at drug-dosage calculations, and it will focus on oral and parenteral medications
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Business Skills
ACCT 1110 Review Session
Get ready for your Accounting 1110 midterm! Learn how to analyze your exam questions and how to prepare for success by identifying what successful students do to prepare for exams.
ACCT 2293 Review Session
Get ready for your Accounting 2293 midterm! Learn how ot analyze your exam questions and how to prepare for success by identifying what sucessful students do to prepare for exams.
BUSI 1110 Review Session
Midterms are coming! Plan now to be ready for your exam. Figure out how to answer those test questions before they are worth big marks. Come and learn tips and strategies for writing your midterm.
BUSI 1215 Review Session
Midterms are coming! Plan now to be ready for your exam. Figure out how to answer those test questions before they are worth big marks. Come and learn tips and strategies for writing your midterm.
ECON 1150 Review Session
Get ready for your ECON 1150 midterms! Learn how to prepare for success by identifying what successful students do to prepare for exams.
Math Support for Economics Students: Graphing Linear Equations
This session will help students to draw a linear equation by determining the x- and y-intercepts. This will help them graph demand and supply curves and understand the concept of the Law of Demand and Law of Supply.
Math Support for Economics Students: Slope and Special Equations
The session will introduce the idea of Y = mx + b, how to calculate the slope, m, and how the basic formula can offer clues to the steepness and direction of the demand and supply curve. This will help students determine if an algebraic equation is a demand or supply curve and will allow students to see how a change in the formula affects the curve.
Math Support for Economics Students: Systems of Linear Equations
This session will help students develop skills necessary for transposition of formulae and how to determine the point of intersection. This will be useful when students are determining equilibrium points and how a change in one (or both) formulas impacts the equilibrium point.
Math Support for Economics Students: Calculating Area
This final session will help students determine how to calculate area. It offers guided practice and examples to allow students to calculate producer, consumer and total surplus. By using the skills developed in previous sessions, students will be able to calculate the impact of a change in demand or supply or impact of a new tax, quota or price ceiling or floor on consumer, producer and total surplus
Researching Skills For Business
Learn skills to find secondary sources necessary for your business reports.
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Software Skills
How to Access Moodle
Learn to use Moodle more effectively to get all resources relevant to your KPU courses.
Mahara
This e-portfolio platform is a great way to ensure you are taking the knowledge and skills gained in each course forward to the next course, to your practicum project, to your first job. Learn how to use Mahara as a platform for showcasing your achievements.
Excel - Basics for Undergraduate and Post Bacc Accounting
Learn a wide range of skills, from how to perform basic calculations with formulae to analyzing large datasets with pivot tables.
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Sensational Saturdays
Strategies for Work and StudyLearn strategies to becoming a stronger and more efficient learner while still being effective in the workplace. |
Independent LearningThis session will assist you in analyzing how you learn and choosing techniques that will increase your independence as a University learner. Bring your course syllabus and text with you. |
Writing Mini Boot Camp - Get Past Writers' BlockCome to this workshop and learn some creative ways to get your ideas on to the page. From there, you will learn some strategies for organizing your ideas effectively. |
Writing Mini Boot Camp - Quote, Paraphrase and SummarizeWant to improve your writing assignments? attend this workshop to learn how! |
Writing Mini Boot Camp - Strategies for Self EditingIn this workshop, you will learn to follow a step-by-step process to edit your paper from start to finish. You’ll also be introduced to some tools to help you identify common errors in your writing and to work strategically to overcome these errors. |
Writing Mini Boot Camp - Keep Calm and Cite Your SourcesIn this workshop, you will learn how to integrate information from your readings while maintaining your own distinctive voice in your paper. |
Writing Mini Boot Camp - Speed and Critical ReadingIn this workshop, you will learn how to efficiently read your texts and papers while retaining what you have read. |
Writing Mini Boot Camp - APA CitationLearn the basics of APA citation style and to give credits to information used in your assignments. Exam Preparation StrategiesWhy wait until the exam to find out what you know? Use this workshop to develop your study and self-testing techniques before your next test. Get prepared! |
Reducing Academic AnxietyLearn more about the role anxiety can play in your academic success, along with strategies for effectively managing and overcoming it. |