Scholarly Learning
Books and journals that help students own their learning.
Research-informed books and journals for college and university students, from first year through graduate school. Each one is built on a single idea: learning improves when students plan it, check it, adjust it, and stay responsible for it, especially now that AI is one tab away.
Created by Peter Arthur, PhD, Professor of Teaching at the University of British Columbia and a recipient of the Killam Teaching Prize.
Think First
The Learning Ownership System for Studying, Assignments, and Learning with AI
The complete system in one compact guide: seven moves and the tools that put them to work on assignments, exams, AI use, feedback, weekly planning, and recovery. Written for college and university students, and designed to be opened at the point of need and written in.
Coming November 1
Winter 2027 Journals
A term is a different problem from a single assignment. Two guided journals turn Learning Ownership into a daily and weekly practice from January through April, one for undergraduate students and one for graduate students.
The Scholar: Winter 2027
A guided winter-term journal for undergraduate students
For a course-heavy term with multiple classes, assignments, exams, and competing deadlines. It helps students identify what matters, plan realistic weeks, adjust when plans stop working, and carry what they learn forward.
The Graduate: Winter 2027
A guided winter-term journal for graduate students
For graduate students balancing research, writing, coursework, teaching, and meetings. It helps protect meaningful work inside a crowded term and reset before a difficult week becomes a lost month.
Looking for a summer structure for graduate research? The Graduate: Summer 2026 remains available as the previous summer edition.
Choosing
Choose the Resource That Fits
One practical guide teaches the Learning Ownership System. Two journal series help students put those practices to work across a full academic term.
| What you need | Start here |
|---|---|
| Help with assignments, exams, studying, feedback, AI, or getting back on track | Think First |
| A full-term system for undergraduate courses, deadlines, assignments, exams, and competing demands | The Scholar |
| A full-term system for graduate research, writing, teaching, coursework, and other meaningful work | The Graduate |
Think First and the journal that fits a student’s term are complementary, but students do not need both. Each can be used on its own. See all books and journals.
What Ties Them Together
One System, Seven Moves
Scholarly Learning titles translate research on self-regulated learning, metacognition, retrieval practice, feedback, and responsible AI use into routines students can actually run. The Learning Ownership System brings that work together as seven moves that apply across many academic tasks. Think First teaches the moves directly. The journals help students practice them across a full term.
- 1Understand
- 2Plan
- 3Practice First
- 4Monitor
- 5Adjust
- 6Verify
- 7Transfer
Start Free
Try Learning Ownership Free
You do not have to buy a book to try the system. LearningOwnership.com provides nine free student resources and four free teaching resources, with no email required. They may be downloaded, printed, and shared, without charge and with attribution, for classroom, advising, learning-centre, and student-support use.
For Faculty and Programs
Adopting a Title
Scholarly Learning titles can be purchased individually or considered for courses, first-year programs, learning centres, advising and student-success programming, graduate programs, and cohort use.
Review copies, cohort pilots, workshops, and the four free teaching resources are handled through LearningOwnership.com. Quantity orders, invoicing, institutional purchasing, and bookstore enquiries come directly from the publisher.
Course and Program Information Bookstore and Institutional Enquiries
About
Created by a Professor Who Studies How Students Learn
Peter Arthur is a Professor of Teaching at the University of British Columbia and a Killam Teaching Prize recipient. His work focuses on self-regulated learning, metacognition, and how students can use AI in ways that support rather than replace learning. He created the Learning Ownership System to help students plan, monitor, adjust, and take greater ownership of their learning.
Find Your Starting Point
Three Ways to Start
Read the guide, try a free resource, or bring the system to your students.