The purpose of this website is to provide college students, tutors, and faculty/instructors with a wide range of information about how to make learning effective and efficient.  This will largely take place through the provision of strategies for learning and teaching.  

For students, two kinds of strategies are presented: (a) metacognitive strategies (general thinking strategies) that apply across learning contexts, and (b) specific learning strategies in the areas of listening and note-taking, gaining knowledge from text, writing, test taking and thinking/argumentation.

In addition, information will be provided about concepts and behaviors for students to engage in when they are away from class or texts.   These will include the importance of time management along with habits related to diet, exercise, and sleep.

The ultimate goal is to help students become self directed learners.
 
For tutors, information will be provided about best practices while tutoring,  including a systematic and structured approach to strategy teaching.

For faculty/instructors, teaching strategies will be presented that promote thinking, motivation, and sensitivity to the multicultural and multilinguistic characteristics of students.

This website is not designed to re-event the wheel.  Entire books and college courses have been devoted to the best learning and teaching practices.   Rather, for a given topic,  a brief introduction will be provided along with links and other references to relevant content. A link to Resources (references) is at the bottom of each page.

The website is a work in progress.   Please provide constructive criticism (and information about broken links ):  see the Contact Site Manager link below. AI (Artificial Intelligence) is not discussed (except here), nor are strategies related to learning mathematics.