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This e-learning pathway offers a growing collection of interactive self-guided courses, each containing topics, units and “microlearning” activities. Covering important concepts like grammar, referencing and essay writing, our courses are specially designed to help English learners, university tutors and business professionals improve their academic skills and reach advanced language proficiency.
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This course develops a knowledge of academic style, functional language and high-frequency vocabulary.
✔ up to 27 units across 5 topics
✔ 60+ hours of self-guided “microlearning”
✔ 500+ intermediate to advanced activities
✔ develops advanced English, academic knowledge, study skills, critical thinking and autonomous learning
Overview
This engaging, interactive course has hundreds of e-learning activities that offer instruction and practice in using academic language structures and avoiding unacademic words and phrases.
Learn about how hedging language, cohesive devices, and reporting verbs can improve the academic style of essays, dissertations or presentations and develop competence in using language resources such as dictionaries and corpora to search for antonyms, synonyms, collocations and subject-specific vocabulary.
Whether your major is Business, Economics, English or Engineering, this comprehensive course is bound to prove useful for improving academic skills and a knowledge of written and spoken English.
Topics
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➲ English for Academic Purposes
➲ Word Meanings and Relations
➲ High-Frequency Words
➲ Academic Verbs
➲ Vocabulary Tools
Aims
Complete this course to:
+ improve confidence in identifying academic and unacademic language
+ become familiar with using hedging language, reporting language, cohesive devices and functional vocabulary
+ develop an ability to consult word, phrase and collocation lists, as well as dictionaries, thesauri and linguistic corpora
+ better understand how to use antonyms, synonyms, homonyms, polysemes and abbreviations
This course explores the form, function and distribution of English words, phrases, clauses and sentences.
✔ up to 24 units across 6 topics
✔ 55+ hours of self-guided “microlearning”
✔ 450+ intermediate to advanced activities
✔ develops advanced English, academic knowledge, study skills, critical thinking and autonomous learning
Overview
This engaging, interactive course has hundreds of e-learning activities that offer instruction and practice in using advanced grammar structures and avoiding ungrammatical words and phrases.
Learn about the adjectives, nouns and verbs that are most common in academic essays, dissertations or presentations, and develop competence in identifying appropriate form, meaning, function and structure, as well as in recognising sentence run-ons, sentence fragments, comma splices and other punctuation errors.
Whether teaching or studying, and whatever your major, this comprehensive course is proven to be useful for improving academic skills and a knowledge of advanced-level written and spoken English.
Topics
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➲ Word Forms
➲ Verb Functions
➲ Phrase Functions
➲ Sentence Clauses
➲ Sentence Structures
➲ Punctuation Marks
Aims
Complete this course to:
+ improve confidence in fixing advanced grammar errors
+ develop competence in forming and using accurate affixes, words, phrases, clauses and sentences
+ gain experience in identifying grammatical structures in authentic academic texts
+ better understand how to punctuate phrases, dependent clauses, independent clauses and conjunctive adverbs
This course provides guidance and strategies for succeeding in university-level assessments.
✔ up to 22 units across 6 topics
✔ 50+ hours of self-guided “microlearning”
✔ 350+ intermediate to advanced activities
✔ develops advanced English, academic knowledge, study skills, critical thinking and autonomous learning
Overview
This engaging, interactive course has hundreds of e-learning activities that offer instruction and guidance in approaching university-level assessments.
Learn about the different assignment and examination types that students are most frequently tasked with during their degree, such as essays, presentations, laboratory reports, interviews and discussions. Explore tips-for-success, strategies for overcoming assessment challenges, and advice about responding to errors and tutor or peer feedback.
Whether new to university or in your final year, this comprehensive course should help you to prepare for the expectations and demands of both formative and summative academic assessments.
Topics
Explore units about:
➲ Coursework
➲ Examinations
➲ Laboratory Reports
➲ Language Tests
➲ Oral Assessments
➲ Presentations
Aims
Complete this course to:
+ improve confidence in completing university-level assessments
+ develop strategies for succeeding in coursework and examinations
+ gain experience in writing essays, drafting scripts and notecards, completing experiments and designing effective visual aids
+ better understand how to learn from feedback, write under pressure and structure academic assignments
This course builds competencies in drafting essay types, argument structures and paragraph elements.
✔ up to 24 units across 5 topics
✔ 50+ hours of self-guided “microlearning”
✔ 400+ intermediate to advanced activities
✔ develops advanced English, academic knowledge, study skills, critical thinking and autonomous learning
Overview
This engaging, interactive course has hundreds of e-learning activities that offer instruction and practice in researching, planning, drafting, editing and proofreading academic style essays.
Learn about how best to approach the writing process and how key essay elements such as thesis statements, topic sentences, claims and supporting details help to create a concise and coherent argument structure, one that is able to demonstrate writer stance, source voice and concession and rebuttal structures.
Whether you are studying or teaching at the university level, wish to publish in academia, or simply hope to improve your writing ability, this comprehensive course is carefully designed to improve academic skills and advanced written-English proficiency.
Topics
Explore units about:
➲ The Essay Writing Process
➲ Writing Introductions
➲ Drafting Body Sections
➲ Creating Conclusions
➲ Dissertations and Theses
Aims
Complete this course to:
+ improve confidence in deconstructing academic essays
+ become familiar with the various essay elements (thesis statements), sections (introductions) and types (problem-solution)
+ develop skills in researching, planning, drafting, editing and proofreading short and extended essays
+ better understand how to form academic style through the use of functional language and academic words and collocations
This course explores methods of classroom, online, autonomous and collaborative learning.
✔ up to 16 units across 4 topics
✔ 35+ hours of self-guided “microlearning”
✔ 250+ intermediate to advanced activities
✔ develops advanced English, academic knowledge, study skills, critical thinking and autonomous learning
Overview
This modern, interactive course has hundreds of e-learning activities that offer both instruction and practice in methods of learning.
We discuss the difference between lectures, seminars and tutorials and how to benefit most from these environments, comparing face-to-face classroom interactions with online study. By following these course materials, students can also improve their knowledge of digital learning strategies, exploring the best methods for autonomous study, keeping study schedules, responding to tutor feedback, and working in study groups.
Using our unique microlearning approach, students are now able to complete the topics and activities that best ensure learning success in university-level, academic-English contexts.
Topics
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➲ On-Campus Study
➲ Online Learning
➲ Self-Guided Study
➲ Peer Collaboration
Aims
Complete this course to:
+ learn how to participate effectively in various online and face-to-face learning environments
+ become familiar with strategies for autonomous, self-guided study
+ develop skills in digital learning, educational technology and methods of e-communication
+ be better able to succeed in collaborative tasks and assignments
This course explains how to cite, reference, use different referencing styles and follow academic conduct.
✔ up to 18 units across 4 topics
✔ 40+ hours of self-guided “microlearning”
✔ 300+ intermediate to advanced activities
✔ develops advanced English, academic knowledge, study skills, critical thinking and autonomous learning
Overview
This engaging, interactive course has hundreds of e-learning activities, offering instruction and practice in avoiding misconduct and plagiarism through correct source acknowledgement.
Whether your course requires Harvard, Chicago or Oxford style referencing, learn how to build and format accurate citations, reference lists, footnotes, quotations, appendices and bibliographies. Discover how to use similarity-checking software and referencing-management software and how to overcome some of the trickiest referencing challenges, such as having absent source details.
Whatever your purpose is for referencing, whether for an assignment or publication, this comprehensive course is certain to improve your academic skills and accuracy when acknowledging sources.
Topics
Explore units about:
➲ Academic Conduct
➲ Referencing Features
➲ Referencing Challenges
➲ Referencing Styles
Aims
Complete this course to:
+ learn how to follow correct academic conduct and practices when writing and submitting assignments
+ become familiar with a variety of referencing features and styles
+ develop an ability to build comprehensive reference lists, vary citations effectively and format quotations accurately
+ become better able to overcome referencing challenges
This course offers study-skill strategies for listening, reading, writing, speaking, thinking and research.
✔ up to 21 units across 6 topics
✔ 45+ hours of self-guided “microlearning”
✔ 400+ intermediate to advanced activities
✔ develops advanced English, academic knowledge, study skills, critical thinking and autonomous learning
Overview
This engaging, interactive course has hundreds of e-learning activities, offering instruction and practice in developing useful study skills for academic contexts.
Our microlearning method means that you can improve every study skill in the order that best suits you or focus only on those skills that need the most attention. Whether you would benefit from additional guidance with your general academic skills or would like to enhance your listening, reading, speaking and writing, this comprehensive course covers the main competences of advanced academic English.
After receiving topical and unit-based instruction, each skill can then be further developed in the Practice Labs, in which our authentic texts and activities can help to further enhance your study skills.
Topics
Explore units about:
➲ Cognitive Skills
➲ Listening Skills
➲ Reading Skills
➲ Research Skills
➲ Speaking Skills
➲ Writing Skills
Aims
Complete this course to:
+ learn how to improve academic, listening, reading, research, speaking and writing skills
+ become familiar with various strategies for effective study skills
+ develop an ability to take notes, recognise cues, summarise, analyse, debate, paraphrase, synthesise and define
+ become better able to succeed in an academic environment
