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How to Learn Like a Pro! features the “big six” effective learning/study skills topics: learning styles and preferences, time and materials management, critical thinking and reading, note-taking, memory principles, and test-taking techniques. Each of the six units featuring a combined total of twenty-three lessons and accompanying exercises (with a dash of humor here and there) were developed with the diverse student body of the community college in mind as well as learners in other educational venues.

Students first discover what they want from their education, then build a plan to get there. This content takes students through the steps to successfully navigate their journey in higher education. Topics include planning for success, choosing a career path, setting and attaining goals, understanding financial management, developing critical thinking skills, making healthy choices, using effective communication, managing time, developing learning strategies, developing meaningful relationships. https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/28784-cengage-opennow-college-success-reading-learning-o/view

Topics: You and your college experience; staying motivated, organized and on track; thinking about thought; listening, taking notes, and remembering; reading to learn; preparing for and taking tests; interacting with instructors and classes; writing for classes; the social world of college; taking control of your health; taking control of your finances; taking control of your future.

A free, Open Educational Resource, Blueprint for Success in College and Career is a students' guide for classroom and career success. This text, designed to show how to be successful in college and in career preparation focuses on study skills, time management, career exploration, health, and financial literacy.

A free, Open Educational Resource, Blueprint for Success in College: Indispensable Study Skills and Time Management Strategies is a students' guide for classroom success. This text, designed to show how to be successful in college focuses on study skills and time management.

A college students' guide for career success, this free Open Educational Resource text focuses on major identification and career exploration.

Online OER text created for First Year Experience (FYE) Career Exploration by Denise Dufek for Bay College.

Topics: creating your career and life planning vision; engaging in self-exploration; conduction career research; decision making and goal setting; developing your self-marketing campaign; turning your career and life planning vision into reality.

Topics: Self-awareness; cultural diversity; self-responsibility; self-empowerment; personal plan of action; and learning skills.

Misc. health topics valuable to incoming college students.

Includes topics like business communications, professional writing, using Word, spreadsheets, time and stress management, job hunting skills, and much much more.

How to use Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and how to complete internet research.