LibGuides: Study Skills: Study Skills and Tips

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There are many study skill videos available. See the embedded one below and others listed in the box below.

Video Databases that include Study Skills

Alexander Street Press
Instructors, please use the permalink for these videos in Canvas; the video embed code does not work properly.

ProQuest's Alexander Street products are curated, discipline-focused, primary source collections and streaming media. Subject matter spans across the curriculum —in literature; music; women's history; black history; psychological counseling and therapy; social and cultural history; theatre; and other areas.
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Student Success Series
These short videos (each less than 20 minutes) offer practical, research-based advice to students to help them develop essential skills.

O'Reilly for Higher Education
O'Reilly contains books, audio books, videos, case studies, curated courses, and more concerning tech, business, and professional development. Includes resources from more than 200 respected publishers, such as McGraw-Hill, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, HarperCollins. Formerly Safari Books Online.

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Crash Course Study Skills set

Offers basic study skill videos
Has videos on many topics to introduce you to concepts and topics.
Many videos are put into "sets" for fields of study, like business, chemistry, literature, etc.
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Sage Business Skills
SAGE Business Skills helps students develop and practice real-world skills to
transition from campus to the modern workplace through interactive self assessment, virtual scenarios, downloadable data, and expert insights. Supporting a range of courses, a self-guided journey to gain career-ready skill sets for professional success.
Funded by Florida Virtual Campus.

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Sage Skills Student Success
SAGE Skills Student Success helps students develop and practice academic and personal skills for transition to campus life and enable lifelong learning. This resource includes over 1000 skill topics across ten modules, through self assessments, interactive scenarios, downloadable exercises, original videos, and more. Funded by Florida Virtual Campus.

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Sage Campus
To gain access to the eresource, create an account by clicking the Register button on the top, right of the page. Fill out the pop-up form, then click the blue Register button. These self-paced and instructor-led courses cover the essential skills needed to thrive in academic study or research pursuits, including the teaching and learning of skills and research methods across all stages of academic study. Course topics include data literacy, research skills, data science skills, and getting published.

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