Academic Skills Workshops Fall 2020
The Learning Centers provide a range of free workshops which help you develop skills and strategies to enhance your learning.
BUILDING EFFECTIVE STUDY HABITS
Ten Tips for Online Learning
This workshop will help you to choose strategies to understand your course requirements, manage your time, and effectively learn from your course materials.
| WK 1 | Tuesday | Sept 8 | 8:00 am – 9:00 am |
| WK2 | Wednesday | Sept 17 | 7:00 am – 8:00 am |
| WK2 | Wednesday | Sept 17 | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm |
Time Management For Online Learners
| WK3 | Thursday | Sept 24 | 7:00 am – 8:00 am |
| WK3 | Thursday | Sept 24 | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm |
Note Taking and 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!
| WK4 | Wednesday | Sept 30 | 9:00 am – 10:00 am |
Preparing for Tests and Exams
This workshop discusses strategies for organizing study time.
| WK4 | Thursday | Oct 1 | 7:00 am – 8:00 am |
| WK4 | Friday | Oct 2 | 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm |
Exam Preparation Strategies
Use this workshop to improve your study and self-testing techniques before your next test. Get prepared!
| WK5 | Wednesday | Oct 7 | 10:00 am – 11:00 am |
| WK12 | Wednesday | Nov 25 | 10:00 am – 11:00 am |
| WK12 | Friday | Nov 27 | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm |
Preparing for An Open Book Exam
This workshop will give you strategies to prepare for the Open Book Exam and writing well in the exams.
| WK11 | Tuesday | Nov 17 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm |
Master Your Memory
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.
| WK6 | Friday | Oct 16 | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm |
Say No To Procrastination
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.
| WK6 | Monday | Oct 12 | 8:00 am – 9:00 am |
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 note taking and post-class techniques.
| WK3 | Wednesday | Sept. 23 | 10:00 am – 11:00 am |
| WK9 | Thursday | Nov 5 | 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm |
| WK11 | Wednesday | Nov 18 | 10:00 am – 11:00 am |
Stay Motivated In Your Online Learning
Learn strategies you can adopt to help you stay motivated and meet the challenges of school in the online environment.
| WK10 | Tuesday | Nov 10 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm |
Matching Your Studying to Your Exam Question Types
Learn how to plan your study strategy based on the type of exam question you are preparing for.
| WK13 | Monday | Nov 30 | 8:00 am – 9:00 am |
IMPROVE YOUR WRITING
Writing Mini Boot Camp: University Essays: First Steps
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.
| WK3 | Tuesday | Sept. 22 | 7:00 am – 8:30 am |
| Wk 3 | Tuesday | Sept 22 | 10:00 – 11:30 am |
Writing Mini Boot Camp: Get Past Writer’s Block
Come 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.
| WK5 | Monday | Oct 5 | 10.00 am – 11.30am |
Writing Mini Boot Camp: Quote, Paraphrase and Summarize
Want to improve your writing assignments? Attend this workshop to learn how!
| WK4 | Monday | Sept 28 | 10.00 am – 11.30 pm |
Writing Mini Boot Camp: Writing in Your Own Words
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.
| WK7 | Monday | Oct 19 | 10.00 am – 11.30pm |
SCIENCE SKILLS
Writing Right In Biology
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.
| WK2 | Wednesday | Sept 16 | 10:00 am – 11:00 am |
| WK3 | Tuesday | Sept 22 | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm |
| WK3 | Tuesday | Sept 22 | 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm |
| WK7 | Wednesday | Sept 30 | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm |
| WK4 | Thursday | Oct 1 | 10:00 am – 11:00 am |
| WK5 | Thursday | Oct 8 | 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm |
| WK7 | Tuesday | Oct 27 | 7:00 am – 8:00 am |
SOFTWARE SKILLS
For dates and times of Mahara and Excel workshops, and registration links, please visit:
kpu.ca/learningcentres or email The Learning Centre at TLCOnline@kpu.ca.
REVIEW SESSIONS
For dates and times of Review sessions and registration links, please visit:
kpu.ca/learningcentres or email The Learning Centre at TLCOnline@kpu.ca.
Refer to our website at : https://www.kpu.ca/learningcentres/upcoming-workshops for the most up to date information on all workshops.