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How to Boost Your Studying and Test-Taking Skills
Valeria Shvediuk
Would you like to improve your grades or get the perfect test score? In only ten audio lessons, you’ll turn into a test-taking champion, as this crash course teaches you powerful and proven techniques to optimize your study routine, boost your cognitive performance, decrease your exam-related stress, and much more. The lessons are packed with actionable advice and practical tips that draw on the latest findings of neuroscience and psychology to “hack” your brain by taking advantage of the way it works. This course is suitable for students and learners of any age or occupation.
How to Read and Retain More
Abasi Latcham
What do Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Oprah Winfrey have in common? They are all billionaires, and they all read—a lot. This course will help you discover the secrets to getting ahead with your reading. Within ten audio lessons, you’ll learn how the pros achieve reading success.
The Science of Learning
Benjamin Keep
What do you want to learn? Regardless of the answer, this course will help you take control of your learning for the rest of your life. This course synthesizes the past several decades of learning research into digestible daily bits. As we grow up, we acquire learning habits that are ineffective or simply counter-productive to achieving our learning goals. This course is about structuring your own learning experiences to be more effective. Apply its lessons to your own practice, and you will find yourself learning more, learning more deeply, and learning more efficiently. Learning ain’t easy....
The Move Up a Grade Revision Strategy
Ross Maynard
Exams are a difficult time. There are no quick fixes, but you can get a better grade with a good revision strategy. This course presents the revision strategy I used to get the second highest mark in the finals of my accountancy qualifications and 10 A's out of 11 exams through three years of accountancy study. The revision strategy guides you through each phase of revision, and the exam itself, to help you get the best possible marks. I firmly believe that this revision strategy will help you get a better mark than you would have without it.
Studying English Literature: 10 Fantastic Strategies to Excel in the Study of Novels, Poems, Plays and More
K.C. Finn
What's the difference between reading literature and really studying it? Learn how to switch your academic brain on and get the most out of poems, novels, plays, and stories with these brilliant techniques for maximum engagement. Perfect for keen readers, students, and those who wish to develop a more critical awareness about what they read.
The Theory of Education: Effective Learning and Teaching
K.C. Finn
How do we learn? And what really works in learning, for ourselves and for others? These ten simple lessons will show you how to use the philosophy and research of education to improve teaching and learning, whether it’s for your own learning, your teaching career, or to be able to home-school or tutor others.
Applying to Universities
Victoria Dudka
Applying to Universities course will lead you through the whole application process, from strategizing an effective admissions plan, making up a strong profile and a perfect universities' list, preparing for test examinations, gathering necessary documents, writing and polishing application essays to getting ready for an interview with any Admissions Committee without stress and failures. I have invested my 7-year expertise in mentoring hundreds of applicants, who have had successful admission stories to convert it into an easy-to-follow guide, with a simple step-by-step plan in this course....
Read 100 Books This Year
Brandon Hakim
In this course, I'll show you the step-by-step blueprint that thousands of people have used to read 100 books in a year. Because reading isn't just something you should do – it's a must if you want to live your dreams. In this course, I'll help you become a learning machine as well. I'll show you how to pick the right books, and get through them as quickly as humanly possible, so you can take what you learn to get real results in your life.
How Science Works
Benjamin Keep
What do we know about science? Although we encounter scientific claims on a daily basis in the modern world, we rarely consider science itself as an object of study. This course remedies that. It explores deep questions about scientific knowledge and how science works. For instance: How does science develop reliable knowledge? When should scientists change their beliefs? And do they do so when they should? It draws on the philosophy, history, and sociology of science to give you the tools to think more critically about the science you encounter, offers intellectual conundrums to ponder—and it...
Authentic Project Learning Experiences: How to Level-Up Your Classroom Pedagogy
Dayna Laur
In this course, you will begin your journey of authentic project learning experiences (APLEs). Throughout the offered lessons, you will engage with writing an APLE question, aligning your APLE to your standards and developing possible interdisciplinary APLE connections through the five stages of project assessment, creating connections between your APLE and your community, as well as with technical experts, designing appropriate formative assessments that can include technology connections, as well as enhancing essential skills in your learners to develop leaders for tomorrow.