Online tutorials and links

Online tutorials and links

Below are a list of online resources that contain tutorials and advice on how to improve your study skills.

Academic Skills Online from the University of Canberra - contains online tutorials and advice on all aspects of Study Skills.

Tutor and Student Skills Pack (by John Dolan, University of Derby) - Click on study skills for a list of student action files including:

  • Learning in small groups: presenting your ideas
  • Learning in small groups: making a presentation

TONIC - an internet tutorial for university level students from the Netskills project.

The Internet Detective - how to evaluate online resources once you have found them.

Intute vts - includes subject-based tutorials, from Reading University

Skills4study - online study skills help available from the Palgrave publishing website, who publish a range of excellent study skills books.

Open University: Learning Space - a freely available range of study skills materials, and course materials from the Open University's Open Learning Scheme.

University of Loughborough - a collection of freely available study skills leaflets including 'Questionnaire design' and 'Doing a literature review'.

Study skills guides - produced by Gower Publishing, leaflets on a wide range of study skills topics, with exercises to complete.

Dissertation Question Time - A panel of staff and students from Brunel University answer questions about producing a dissertation.

WrAssE - Produced by University of Plymouth, 'The Writing for Assignments E-library project is a resource to help people learn about writing at university. Includes samples of good writing technique.

Learn Higher - Advice for writing at university level and other study skills topics.

BBC Skillswise - Online resource including exercises and quizzes for grammar punctuation and spelling, and maths.

Skills for OU study: English for learning - Produced by the Open University, a resource to help with English for study purposes.

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