Want to help your patrons succeed in their education and careers? LearningExpress Library is a GoWYLD.net resources you should explore! LearningExpress is a comprehensive, interactive learning platform of practice tests and tutorials designed to help students and adult learners succeed on many common academic and licensing tests. It also includes Job and Career Accelerator and the Computer Skills Center.
EBSCO has three Zoom sessions this week that can help you learn all that LearningExpress has to offer and how to use it. No need to pre-register — just use the Zoom link to join when each session starts.
Can’t make the live sessions? All three will be recorded for later viewing. We’ll send the links out when they’re available.
Thursday, Nov 11 (8-8:45 am)
LearningExpress Training for Public Libraries (EBSCO)
Zoom link
Come for a training session on the wonderful resources available to public library patrons in LearningExpress Library and Job and Career Accelerator. We will give an overview of all the content but focus on the content that can help people looking to improve their work situation. We will look at the Resume Builder, Cover Letter Builder, soft skill tutorials, and all the Occupational Certification test prep on the platform. We will also cover all the content for high school and college students like SAT, ACT and AP, CLEP and DSST exam prep. One other important thing we will cover is how we can help you highlight some important content to make it easier and more intuitive for your patrons to find. Session will be 30 minutes with 15 minutes of Q & A.
Thursday, Nov 11 (9:30-10:15)
LearningExpress/PrepStep for Academic Libraries Training (EBSCO)
Zoom link
Learn about all the resources available for college students that can help them be successful. Resources like national certification test prep for dozens of occupations like NCLEX for nursing and Praxis for education. Core academic tutorials and practice sets that can help get students get up to speed in their classes. With our LMS integration through LTI you can now use PrepStep resources in your class curriculum. Dozens of “Student Success Skills” tutorials such as “Finding and Citing Sources”, “Avoiding Plagiarism”, and many more. Your students will also have access to excellent career exploration tools that will help them decide on a major. Once they are ready for that first job, we have all the resources to help from the Resume to Interview Skills. We will also show how you can highlight important content to make it easier and more intuitive to find. Session will be 30 minutes with 15 minutes of Q & A.
Thursday, Nov 11 (10:30-11:15 am)
LearningExpress/PrepStep for High School Students Training (EBSCO)
Zoom link
Learn about all the resources available for High School students in PrepStep that can help them be successful. We will cover all the College Prep content like the SAT, ACT, and AP exams that will help students achieve higher scores. Dozens of “Student Success Skills” tutorials such as “Finding and Citing Sources”, “Avoiding Plagiarism”, and many more. Your students will also have access to excellent career exploration tools that will help them decide on a major in college or a career path that they would like to pursue. Once they are ready for that first job, we have all the resources to help from the Resume to Interview Skills. We will also cover all the core academic content with not only practice sets but tutorials, flashcards, and eBooks. We will also show how you can highlight important content to make it easier and more intuitive to find. Session will be 30 minutes with 15 minutes of Q & A.