Cheery Friday e-mails
Every Friday I send a “Cheery Friday” email chock full of insights about learning and changing to a million registered learners from the massive open online course (“MOOC”) Learning How to Learn. To receive these emails, just register for the course here (it’s free, and registration takes only a few seconds). “See” you on Friday!
Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Jul 22, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Top 50 MOOCs of All Time Looking for a good listing of great MOOCs? Look no further–Class Central has created a spectacular listing of the top 50 MOOCs of all time. (Yes, Learning How to Learn is on the list!) Take a look-through and get some ideas for courses you might like to take. For a B …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Jul 15, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Virtual Reality Barb was fortunate enough to be able to visit the Google Virtual Reality Labs last week. Some of the capabilities of the medium are expensive, but really quite extraordinary—she felt like she was on the holodeck in Star Trek. There is a rumble in the air—educators are beginnin …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Jul 8, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Learn to improve your writing in English Writing coach Daphne Grey-Grant, who did a terrific bonus interview about the writing process for Learning How to Learners, has a great post on a useful app for improving your writing. Check it out! MOOC of the Week As you know, we’re always interested …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Jul 1, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Exercise—Even More Research Reveals Its Power for Learning! Here’s a wonderful article on very recent research revealing that “Exercising After a Task Improves Memory,” The key finding? “The people who exercised hours later had better recall and stronger and more clear activation in the areas …
More >▼ Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Jun 24, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! New Glossary for Learning How to Learn! Thanks to the extraordinary efforts of Mentors Linda Walker, Vindra Khanai, and Marta Pulley, Learning How to Learn has a fantastic new glossary of terms available. Go to the discussion forum here to check it out, and to discuss what you see. Incidental …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Jun 17, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Watch a Memory Competition, Live! Long time Learning How to Learners know that we’re big fans of US Memory Champion Nelson Dellis. Nelson has his third annual memory competition happening in just under 2 weeks from now (June 24-26). It’s being hosted at Dart NeuroScience’s offices and boasts …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Jun 10, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! A reminder about Process versus Product Learning How to Learner Anirudh Varanasi has written an insightful essay about “Focusing on Process rather than Product.” Who knew that losing at water basketball could produce such insight? No Pay MBA Learner Laurie Pickard has taken on the order of 30 …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Jun 3, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Barb on Quora! Remember, Barb’s on Quora today at 11:00 am Pacific time. (Reading answers on Quora forms one of Barb’s favorite “diffuse mode” pastimes) Go here to post questions for her! MOOCs of the Week! If you join the Global Translation Community to help translate Coursera courses, you w …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! May 27, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Barb on Quora! One of Barb’s favorite “diffuse mode” pastimes is reading questions and answers on Quora. To her delight, she’s been asked to take questions in a session that is running on June 3rd. Go here to post questions for her! Help Translate Learning How to Learn to Your Favorite Langua …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! May 13, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Barb’s in Ottawa, Canada, in a talk open to the public—so bring your friends and family! Barb will be speaking in Ottawa on Monday, 30 May 2016 from 8:30 – 10:00 AM at a talk open to the public (although they kindly ask for you to register here beforehand). Barb will give insights behind the …
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