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! 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 …
More >Cheery Friday greetings from Learning How to Learn! May 6, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Dramatic changes in the textbook industry, and taking Learning How to Learn, helps an open-minded learner to retool his career Learning How to Learner Tom Willkens writes: “At twenty-eight years old, I felt trapped in my publishing career, both intellectually and professionally stagnant—and m …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Apr 29, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Recommended MOOC-of-the-week—Critical Perspectives on Management If you are interested in how to manage people well, you will want to read this insightful In-Depth Review on the MOOC Critical Perspective On Management by Learning How to Learn’s very own Senior Mentor Cristian Artoni. The more …
More >Cheery Tuesday greetings from Learning How to Learn! Apr 19, 2016
Cheery Tuesday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Taiwan MOOCs! It’s another early greeting for you all this week! This time, our message is early because Barb’s just arriving in Taiwan to help introduce an International Conference on MOOCs which runs on April 21 and 22nd. The Taiwanese government is visionary in their emphasis on the value …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Apr 15, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Handwriting is better than typing for note taking The Wall Street Journal recently published an excellent article, “Can Handwriting Make You Smarter,” summarizing recent research which shows that handwriting is much better than typing when you are taking notes. Also, we’re big fans of Harvard …
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