What You Will Learn!
- You will learn how to set and operationalize goals and how to make effective use of your time.
- You will learn how to identify and make use of your prior knowledge to support your learning.
- You will learn how to structure your reading to maximize results.
- You will learn how to take focussed, effective notes.
- You will learn how to use the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy to analyze assignment requirements.
- You will learn how to identify research needs for your writing assignments and how to analyze information to support your writing.
- You will learn how to carry out critical analyses of texts of various lengths.
- You will learn how to produce a simple research paper.
- You will learn how to understand and develop your strengths as an oral communicator.
- You will learn how to prepare your oral presentation and how to make your oral presentation convincing
Description
The Dynamic Learning Strategies Workshop
Purpose, Process, and Rewards
Knowing the learning strategies you need in order to do your best can be a challenge. There are so many strategies and so little guidance on how to use them effectively. This course aims to solve the problems by not only showing you how to use the strategies, but, also, by giving you the opportunity to work with them in order to become comfortable and able to make informed decisions when the need arises.
Master Learning Strategies Through the Dynamic Workshop Approach
Learn when and how to use a wide range of specific learning strategies
Sharpen your skills by applying the strategies in selected activities
Apply your new skills to your studies and earn the rewards
Master Learning Strategies
As a student, you have to learn so much! There are so many different things to learn. There may seem to be very few connections among your courses. You may feel constantly pressured for time to get the work done. You may have high expectations, but you are frustrated that you can never be satisfied that you have really done your best.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could turn it all around?
You can, and mastery of learning strategies makes it possible. That’s what The Dynamic Learning Strategies Workshop offers you. It’s a comprehensive learning strategies workshop. You get over 180 video lectures, more than 100 hands-on, brains-on workshop activities, and more than 90 downloads to support you in the workshop and in your studies beyond. There are also 15 prior-knowledge quizzes and 15 review quizzes to help you identify and consolidate your skills.
Some of the things you’ll learn in The Dynamic Learning Strategies Workshop:
How to set and operationalize goals
How to make effective use of your time
How to brainstorm effectively
How to identify and make use of your prior knowledge to support your learning
How to identify and make use of a wide array of learning resources—physical, electronic, and human
How to identify and take advantage of the many special features of your library
How to structure your reading to maximize results
How to use self-generated questions to guide your learning
How to take focussed, effective notes
How to choose and use different modes of exposition
How to use the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy to analyze assignment requirements
How to identify research needs for your writing assignments
How to analyze information to support your writing
How to carry out critical analyses of texts of various lengths
How to produce a simple research paper
How to understand and develop your strengths as an oral communicator
How to prepare your oral presentation
How to make your oral presentation convincing
And there is more, much more. Look over the lecture list. Think how your study results would be transformed with mastery of those strategies! This is the opportunity!
Who Should Attend!
- Students with high expectations and a strong desire to be the best learners they can be.
- Students willing to invest time and effort in "learning how to learn."
