by Leonard Geddes | May 29, 2021 | Blog Post
On May 19, 2021, I was honored to provide two workshops for the Learning Specialists Association of Canada’s annual national conference. Having been the conference Keynote speaker in 2015, it was great connecting with many of my colleagues from the north and...
by Leonard Geddes | May 5, 2021 | Blog Post
Teaching shouldn’t be so hard! On a basic level, the teaching and learning enterprise is built upon two conditional assurances. Teachers want to know that if they teach students, then students will work to learn the material. Students want to know that if they...
by Leonard Geddes | Apr 24, 2021 | Blog Post
There are two types of academic challenges students face in college: Type I and Type II. Type I problems are challenges of effort. In these situations, students aren’t very studious. They don’t show up for class. They don’t study. And they don’t read. In...
by Leonard Geddes | Feb 22, 2021 | Blog Post
My recent discoveries suggest that “good students” — those with decent skills and who work hard — enjoy consistent academic success in settings with two distinct academic conditions. Fortunately for them, many courses have these conditions....
by Leonard Geddes | Mar 24, 2020 | Blog Post
Going to college is no trivial matter, but succeeding in college is an entirely different challenge. Why does college make some students but break others? This article shares an effective strategy you can use to transform students’ struggles into successes. When...
by Leonard Geddes | Oct 2, 2019 | Blog Post
-Click image to enlarge- In the current environment of hyper-segmentation, it can seem impossible for instructors and learning center professionals to know what college students need to succeed. We seem infatuated with sub-dividing students into increasingly smaller...
