Services

In addition to a variety of workshops, Individualized services aslo offers you:

• Free one-on-one appointments with a Learning Specialist trained in learning and motivation strategies.
• Learning Specialist to discuss your academic strengths and weaknesses.
• Introduces you to learning and motivation strategies to help you succeed in college.
• Discuss common concerns for college students.
• Helps you develop a personalized plan of action for academic success!
• Learn more about Outreach and Individualized Services

The following podcasts are in .wav format. You may "right click" and save to your hard drive or just click and play in your media player. Each podcast is copyrighted 2006, Walter E. Dennis Learning Center.

• Identifying the Procrastinator in You
• You Have a Gold Mine When You Have a Goal Mind
• The Self-Confident Way to Be

• Preferred Learning Style
  Take this short test to learn what your preferred learning style is.

• School Strategies Scale
  Find out how you're doing with respect to time management, self-confidence, responsibility, classroom strategies, information processing, test preparation, writing, and life management, and the skills you need to develop to be successful in college.

• That's Me, That's Not Me
  Not sure whether you're a procrastinator?  Take this short test and find out!

The Learning Center offers motivational assistance through individual consultations with Learning Specialists and through computer-based modules. The computer modules helps students increase their motivation to achieve success in college by addressing the following topics:

• Procrastination: The Thief of Time
  
• Self-Confidence: Believing in Yourself
  
• Taking Responsibility: It's Up to You
  
• Managing Your Life in School
  
• Career Exploration
  

The Learning Center offers learning assistance and exam preparation in the forms of individual consultations with Learning Specialists and through computer-based modules.

Begin by taking the School Strategies Scale and see how well you're using key strategies for success in college.

Objectives for computer modules which are currently online include the following: 

• Active Listening: Learning from Lecture
  
• Active Reading: Learning from Text
  
• Preparing for Exams
  
• Papers and Speeches
  

In WEDLC

• Outreach and Individualized Services
• Strategies for College Success Course (FIPSE)

Related Services in Younkin

The Walter E. Dennis Learning Center is housed in the Younkin Success Center (YSC) which also houses:

• A state-of-the-art computer facility,
• Counseling and Consultation Services,
• Career Connection,
• Student Athlete Support Offices, and
• Faculty and TA Development.

It also contains a resource library, study lounges, and classrooms, and, in addition to providing learning services to all students who request them, supports research focused on enhancing learning and self-management among college students.

Related Services Around Campus

Follow the links below to find out about other resources available to you as an OSU student.

• For Athletes...
  - Student Athlete Support Services
• For Honors Students...
  - Honors and Scholars Center
• For Student Life...
  - Off-Campus Student Services
  - Residence Life
• For Students with Disabilities...
  - Office for Disability Services
  - Students With Disabilities Syllabus Statement
• For Tutoring...
  - Index of Tutoring Services
  - Math-Stat Learning Center
  - Math-Stat Learning Center Study Review
  - Office of Minority Affairs (Tutoring Services)
• For Writing...
  - The Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing