The Learning Centres provide a range of FREE workshops which help you to develop skills and strategies to enhance your learning. These workshops will help you in your academic courses and in your career! 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
Learn how to interpret assignment questions and apply assessment criteria in your initial assignment planning.
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Get Your Project Done
Learn strategies to tackle your assignments and projects.
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Building Effective Study Habits
Study Smarter
Do you want to get the most out of every hour of study time? This workshop will introduce you to study techniques that have been proven to improve the concepts you learn. You will learn how to access deeper-level thinking that helps concepts to stick.
Master Your Memory
Would you like to remember more effectively, while using your study time more effectively? In this workshop, you will learn how memory works and ideal strategies for remembering more of what you learn. You will also be able to experiment with new techniques, like visualization, mnemonic devices, and smartphone apps to help you to learn.
Strategic Time Management
Learn to identify your current time wasters and decide which time wasters are having negative consequences. You will then have hands-on techniques to draft a tentative personal time schedule. You will also learn to manage your day with a smartphone app.
Note Taking & Summarizing
We can use note taking and summarizing as a way to understand our tests, or even our research resources. Building your note taking and summarizing skills can help you boost your confidence and your grades!
Reading Texts and Taking Notes
This workshop will help you learning from your textbooks and university lectures by introducing a variety of effective pre-lecture reading strategies along with in-class notetaking and post-class techniques. This session will include organizing your reading strategy to make sense of all this new information so that you can be successful in your courses. You will learn how to listen for key points and summarize main ideas, preparing for more meaningful and effective study notes. Find a note-taking strategy to suit you and develop a plan for organizing your notes.
Say No To Procrastination
Why do you postpone doing something? Learn to identify the key factors that make you postpone. Evaluate if the Pomodoro technique may be a part of your solution. Develop an action plan for overcoming procrastination on a specific course-related task. You will also learn some motivational systems to support successful task completion.
Exam Preparation Strategies
Use this workshop to improve 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
University Essay: First Steps
Are you ready to write your first university essays? This workshop will introduce the requirements and expectations for university-level writing as well as effective strategies and resources to help the writing process. Learn how to craft a thesis statement, structure an argument, and begin to write clearly and concisely.
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
Do you need to use information from several sources in your paper? Confused about how to write an effective paraphrase? You will leave this workshop with practical strategies for reading sources, taking effective resource notes, and integrating paraphrased information into a strong academic paper.
Writing your Business Report
Learn how to integrate the information you find in your research into a well-organized business report.
Writing Effective Research Papers
Learn how to prepare a professional, well-researched and polished 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
Writing in Biology is quite different from writing you have previously learned. This type of writing requires careful thoughts and attention to detail. Your instructor is expecting you to write precisely and you need to attain a higher level of scientific writing. In this workshop, you will learn to plan activities to increase your learning, discuss the structure and function of responses in Biology, compare and contrast using "how" and "why" statements, learn how to use "whereas" in paragraph format as well as analyze exam items carefully which will lead to better results. Don't miss this chance to improve your Biology writing skills.
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
Biology 1160 Midterm Exam Review Session
Prepare for your BIOL 1160 midterm exam. Practice exam level questions and review key concepts to help you be successful. Please Check back later for new dates!
Biology 1260 Midterm Exam Review Session
Prepare for your BIOL 1260 midterm exam. Practice exam level questions and review key concept to help you be successful. Please Check back later for new dates!
Math Support for GNIE Students: Oral and Parenteral Drug Dosage Calculations
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Business Skills
ACCT 1110 Midterm Exam Review Session
Get ready for your Accounting 1110 midterm! Review and apply key concepts to exam level questions.
ACCT 2293 Midterm Exam Review Session
Get ready for your Accounting 2293 midterm! Review and apply key concepts to exam level questions.
ECON 1150 Midterm Exam Review Session
Get ready for your ECON 1150 midterms! Review and apply key concepts to exam level questions.
BUSI 1110 & 1215 Midterm Exam Preparation
Get ready for your BUSI 1110 and 1215 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.
Software Skills
Excel Advance
Learn how to use complex formulas and get results from big databases.
Mahara Boot Camp
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 become 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 to learn a variety of techniques to generate ideas for your papers or assignments. From there, you will learn strategies to organize your ideas and finally have hands-on ideas to outline them. |
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 EditingAre you tired of losing marks for small mistakes on your writing assignments? Take control of improving your writing by learning practical strategies to find and correct mistakes before you submit your papers. |
Writing Mini Boot Camp - Cite using the new APA StyleAre you fretting about using the new APA style correctly? Not to Worry! In this hands-on workshop you will learn how to do a variety of citations based on the new 7th edition of the manual, so you can more confidently cite your sources in your papers. |
Exam Preparation StrategiesWhy wait until the exam to find out what you do not know? Use this workshop to improve 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. |
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