Courses by Task
8 courses
Courses for a specific task at university:
- Getting a Good Start at University
- Passing Exams and Retaining What You Learn
- Studying Alongside Work, Children, or Caregiving
- Stop Procrastinating and Stay on Track
- Reading and Working with Academic Texts
- Coping with Stress and Test Anxiety
- Using AI Wisely
- Ready for Work: Presenting, Working in Teams, Showing Your Profile
Courses
Getting a Good Start at University
For your first semesters: how remembering works, why attending classes matters, and how to take notes, concentrate, plan your week, and work in study groups.
✅ Summary (checklist)
Contents: 6 sessions
- Getting Started 1 · How Remembering Works—and Why Forgetting Is Normal
- Getting Started 2 · Attendance: The Factor Hardly Anyone Talks About
- Getting Started 3 · Taking and Organizing Notes
- Getting Started 4 · Concentration: Distraction, Breaks, Environment
- Getting Started 5 · Planning Your Week
- Getting Started 6 · Study Groups That Work
Passing Exams and Retaining What You Learn
What helps less than it feels like. Self-testing, spaced practice, self-explanation, structuring large amounts of material, planning your exam period, and learning from grades and mistakes.
✅ Summary (checklist)
Contents: 7 sessions
- Exams 1 · What Helps Less Than It Feels Like
- Exams 2 · Self-Testing: The Most Effective Technique
- Exams 3 · Spaced Practice Instead of All at Once
- Exams 4 · Self-Explanation and the Explain-It Test
- Exams 5 · Structuring Large Amounts of Material
- Exams 6 · Your First Exam Period
- Exams 7 · Learning from Grades and Mistakes
Studying Alongside Work, Children, or Caregiving
For everyone who studies alongside work, children, or caregiving: planning your week, setting priorities, spaced review, focused work, and paying attention to sleep and recovery.
✅ Summary (checklist)
Contents: 5 sessions
- Alongside Work and Family 1 · Planning Your Week
- Alongside Work and Family 2 · Priorities Under Pressure
- Alongside Work and Family 3 · Spaced Practice Instead of All at Once
- Alongside Work and Family 4 · Concentration: Distraction, Breaks, Environment
- Alongside Work and Family 5 · Staying the Course: Sleep, Recovery, and Limits
Stop Procrastinating and Stay on Track
Setting goals that hold up. Planning your week, understanding and ending procrastination, steering your own learning, and reviewing it regularly.
Reading and Working with Academic Texts
Reading on paper or on screen, evaluating studies, managing literature and notes, giving and receiving feedback on texts, planning your thesis.
Coping with Stress and Test Anxiety
Sleep, recovery, and limits. What helps against test anxiety and what doesn’t, learning from grades and mistakes, and reflecting without slipping into rumination.
Using AI Wisely
Using artificial intelligence tools wisely for learning: why technology in learning always makes the same promise, how a language model helps with self-testing and explaining, where it weakens learning, and how to check…
Ready for Work: Presenting, Working in Teams, Showing Your Profile
Skills for university and work: working in teams, preparing and giving presentations, designing slides and posters, and showing what you can do with evidence.