• Supplemental Instruction (SI)

    Supplemental Instruction

    Supplemental Instruction (SI) sessions are weekly review sessions for students enrolled in difficult modules.

  • Academic Peer Mentoring

    Academic Peer Mentoring

    The peer mentor program is designed to assist first year students in making a successful transition into university life.

  • Reading Lab

    Reading Development Lab

    Reading is compulsory for all students to complete. The sooner you start the better!!

  • Study Skills Workshops

    Study Skills Workshops

    Study Skills Workshops are there to help you improve your own grades and make friends. Discover new study methods, how to deal with stress and much more!

  • eFundi

    eFundi

    eFundi is the NWU Learning Management System that lecturers use to communicate with students. You can also find notes, tests and assignments on eFundi.

  • ADS Socal Media

    ADS Social Media

    ADS will be using the following social media platforms to communicate with you: Facebook, Twitter and THIS BLOG!.

Fourth video: Get the most out of studying

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Hi Everybody!


We are posting a series of videos on how to optimise your learning. These videos are by Dr Stephen Chew from the University of Samford, Birmingham, Alabama.

These videos are great. They are guaranteed to get you thinking about the way you learn.

Please watch all the way to the end. 

 

This video shows you those learning strategies that are focused on deep processing of material, so that you can really understand information and retain it for long.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9GrOxhYZdQ



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Third video in the series: Addresses effective learning strategies

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Hi Everybody!


We are posting a series of videos on how to optimise your learning. These videos are by Dr Stephen Chew from the University of Samford, Birmingham, Alabama.

These videos are great. They are guaranteed to get you thinking about the way you learn.

Please watch all the way to the end. 

 

The third video addresses effective learning strategies and highlights that you can study for long periods of time with ineffective strategies and still fail. 

 



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Second video: Basic principles of how people learn

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Hi Everybody!


We are posting a series of videos on how to optimise your learning. These videos are by Dr Stephen Chew from the University of Samford, Birmingham, Alabama.

These videos are great. They are guaranteed to get you thinking about the way you learn.

Please watch all the way to the end. 

 

The second video explores the basic principles of how people learn and how you can use those principles to improve the effectiveness of your own learning. 

 

 



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