Learning to Learn

Our teaching should be informed by what we know about how humans learn. We have a wealth of resources from expertise at and beyond OU to apply practical strategies to class sessions, activities, and assessments based on how students learn.

Learning to Learn Handbook
Developed by CETL, this practical handbook provides strategies for faculty and students to get the most our courses, projects, and study sessions. Includes teaching tips, note-taking templates, and more.

Learning How to Learn Teaching Tips
These teaching tips are based on OU professor Dr. Barbara Oakley’s Learning How to Learn MOOC.

• Testing Students on How They Study
• While It Simmers: Engaging Focused and Diffuse Modes
• Mind Your Cues: Learning with Class Rituals
• Small, Frequent Practice Makes Permanent
• Chunking and the Memory Palace
• Procrastination

Learning Tips for Students
Written for a student audience, these brief tips can be given to students directly or adapted to fit your course and teaching needs. These are more are published in a weekly CETL Learning Tips column of the Oakland Post.

• What Makes Note-taking Work?
• Reading a Scholarly Article
• Tips on Emailing a Professor
• Asking for Help Shows Strength, Not Weakness
• Customize the Course Syllabus
• Essential Behaviors and Conditions for Learning: Learning Tip for Students
• Slide Presentation Best Practices: Learning Tip for Students