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""Two heads are better than one." That's the simple idea behind study groups. By participating in a study group, you take advantage of one of your best academic resources at UW: other students. You get to add their understanding to your own. Study groups also bring a social quality to your study time."

"Study Groups - The Secret to Success " Short but excellent video (under 2 min.) of two BYU students discussing the value of study groups.

More than 80 free, practical study skills articles

Short handout on purposes of study groups, guidelines for forming, ground rules and guidelines to bridge meetings. Includes link to PPt presentation, though it appears geared toward law class.

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Includes study skills handouts and videos

"Learning involves many activities: managing your time, taking notes, reading books, listening to lectures, memorizing, having discussions, and writing tests. We'll cover each of these activities individually, and teach you to do them more effectively. Feel free to learn the sections in any order that makes sense to you; however given that this is a text, we suggest that you start with the Reading Textbooks section."

18 ways ideas for becoming a master student.

Here you'll find practical applications of the On Course Principles. Each strategy has the purpose of empowering students to become active, responsible learners. The majority of these ideas appeared originally in the On Course Newsletter. Additional strategies are described in the Instructor's manual for the On Course text. New ideas are added here often, so come back often. The most recent strategies are identified with the date.

"The Curve of Forgetting describes how we retain or get rid of information that we take in. It's based on a one-hour lecture. "

Good resource--I use this all the time. In fact, I tried to post this on diigo yesterday but for some odd reason it didn't post. (??) I probably forgot to hit the post button like I did when I intially tried to send this comment.

Short video on how to organize notebook (4:42). Instructor Scott Straub has a YouTube channel "goodgradesfast" that has 135 videos on college success. All are short; most are 2-3 min.