Module Descriptions
The iStudy modules are designed to work from within ANGEL. To see the content of each module, click the title below, however, the quizzes, surveys, and "My Notes" tool will not function outside of ANGEL. Modules import quickly and easily into existing ANGEL courses and groups.
Although Penn State retains copyright ownership, permission is granted to users to make changes to the content of the modules to suit their needs and to share the modules with others as long as credit is given to the original developers. The correct wording for the credit statement is found at the bottom of the first file in each module.
Please read the entire license agreement before distributing the modules, and before modifying and sharing the content of the modules.
Study Skills
- Academic
Integrity, Plagiarism, and Copyright
Instructor's Guide - Every member of the Penn State community is responsible for upholding the university policy on academic integrity and understanding how to properly use and acknowledge intellectual property. This module has been reviewed by Judicial Affairs and the Academic Integrity Committee and is appropriate for use in all PSU courses.
- Academic Research
Interviewing Skills
Instructor's Guide - Conducting an interview provides practical experience with gathering data from a primary source. Learn about how this kind of research demands a considerable amount of planning and preparation.
- Active Reading
Instructor's Guide - Active reading skills, when properly applied, can enable a student to improve recall and application of information presented in print form. Learn more about how to read actively in this module.
- Basic Statistics
Instructor's Guide - Statistical terms play an increasingly important role as you advance through college. Understanding statistical terms and processes can help you understand your own and others’ research.
- Databases
Instructor's Guide - Whether you realize it or not, you use databases on a regular basis. A database is not necessarily related to computers. Learn more about how databases help people access and manage information.
- e-Portfolios at Penn State
Instructor's Guide - e-Portfolios are rapidly becoming a popular way to efficiently share informaiton about what you know, what you can do, and what you value. The purpose of this module is to walk you through the fundamental design decisions involved in creating a useful and informative e-portfolio.
- Learning Online - Are You Ready?
- This module provides an introduction to help you to determine your readiness to take an online course, to improve your learning strategies and styles in an online learning environment, to access available resources, and to familiarize you with online communication skills needed in order to succeed in studying online.
- Making Revisions and Using Markup Symbols
Instructor's Guide - Revising a written composition involves rereading, evaluating, and making changes to improve the text. Knowing common markup symbols makes revision quicker and more efficient.
- Notetaking
Instructor's Guide - Assembling a good set of notes is an essential component of successful learning in college. It is not an accident that the best note takers are often the most successful college students.
- Peer Tutoring
Instructor's Guide - Peer tutoring is helping other students move themselves forward academically. A tutor does not instruct, correct errors, or write papers for other students. Knowing how to establish a tutor/tutee relationship will also help you be a better tutee.
- Source Evaluation and Search Strategies
Instructor's Guide - Use of poor sources for research is a shortcoming of many college papers. This module describes how to locate and properly evaluate information and data you have collected while conducting research.
- Test Anxiety
Instructor's Guide - Generally, we all experience some level of nervousness or tension before tests or other important events in our lives. The term "test anxiety" refers to the emotional, physical, and cognitive reactions that some students have to exams. This module suggests ways to manage your anxiety as well as suggestions and tips applicable to anyone who takes exams.
- Testing and Assessment
- This module provides information about testing, assessment, and evaluation. You will also learn skills that will help you with your professional career by assisting you in becoming a life-long learner.
- Time Management
Instructor's Guide - Whatever your expectations for the "total" college experience, planning and sequencing activities is important to your success. This module suggests ways to manage your responsibilities and activities.
- Written Reports
Instructor's Guide - This module provides basic knowledge about preparing written reports. It is intended to be used as a guide when you are faced with the task of a writing a paper or a report.
Life Skills
- Active Listening
Instructor's Guide - Whether assuming the role of student, friend, worker, or family member, we spend a lot of time communicating. The communication process actively involves a sender and a receiver. This module describes effective active listening skills.
- Brainstorming
Instructor's Guide - Learn to use brainstorming to tap the creativity of a limited number of people for a large number of ideas in an uninhibited, nonjudgmental explosion of ideas, concepts, policies, decisions, and strategies.
- Celebrating Diversity in the Classroom
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- This module is designed to encourage you to think about how you see others--and how you see yourself--based on all of the things that have gone into making you who you are. As you move through this module and think about your own experiences with what you find here, we hope that you will join us in recognizing the richness that diversity brings to your life and in celebrating the opportunities that being here bring to you.
- Concept Maps
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Instructor's Guide - Concept mapping is a technique for representing what you know about a topic as a visual “map” or “web.” It is a good way to find key concepts in lectures and readings and show how they relate.
- Conflict Management
Instructor's Guide - This module discusses some reasons for conflict, why you should manage it, and five conflict-handling modes. These skills will help you understand and manage conflict in your everyday life.
- Cooperative Learning
Instructor's Guide - The ability to work in a team is a skill most employers value. This module describes the basic concepts of cooperative learning and presents techniques to help groups work effectively and efficiently.
- Oral Presentations
Instructor's Guide - Oral presentation skills are useful for any student, worker, or citizen. This module describes the basics of preparing and delivering an oral presentation and includes activities to use as a guide.
- Planning Your Time with Gantt Charts
- A Gantt chart helps you organize and schedule time. It is a step-by-step graphical representation of a proposed project, and has been commonly used as a technique to illustrate different phases and stages of a project work breakdown structure. The purpose of this module is to help you understand what a Gantt chart is, and what are the different components of a Gantt chart includes.
- Problem Solving
Instructor's Guide - Problem solving can be fun and intriguing. This module suggests how to approach problem solving to maximize your college experience.
- Stress Management
Instructor's Guide - Life changes or events affect the amount of stress present in your everyday life. This module helps you understand stress and how it is perceived, which can help you manage it.
Job Skills
- Resume Writing
- Writing a professional resume is more than simply putting information regarding education and experiences down on paper and sending it out to prospective employers. The combination Resume is the most common format for recent college graduates. Based on that, this learning module will focus on teaching you how to put together your first Combination Resume.
- Writing and the College
Experience
Instructor's Guide - By working on an autobiography you can practice important writing skills and perform self-assessment and self-reflection. Learn more about yourself and your style of learning through this module.
All Modules
- If you would like to use all or
most of the modules, add all of the
modules to your course or group, then delete modules you don't want.
istudy_all.zip.gz
Download this file to your computer, then upload it into an ANGEL group or course. To do so, on the group/course Manage tab, select Import Wizard, then Content Package. This file contains all of the iStudy modules. Upload the .zip file (not the decompressed files).
Please read the entire
license agreement before distributing the modules,
and before modifying and sharing the content of the modules.
