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! Feb 26, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Interleaving One of our learners, Quin Benson, has used the discussion forum to mention an excellent article: “The Interleaving Effect: Mixing It Up Boosts Learning.” We’ve often found that learners in math, science, and engineering benefit greatly from tricks like placing problems on flashca …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Feb 19, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! MOOCs for Teacher Development If you are an elementary or secondary school teacher anywhere in the world, we would really appreciate it if you might take the following very brief survey about MOOCs. This will be very useful for a panel being hosted at SXSWEdu called ‘MOOCs & Teacher PD: M …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Feb 12, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! London Taxi Drivers and Learning Barb’s recent trip to London for the Learning Technologies Conference was terrific! (Here’s an intriguing Google Hangout discussion about little known, but vital aspects of learning with Barb and educational psychologist Tesia Marshik, hosted Sukhvinder Pabial …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Feb 5, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Are You a Medical School or Pre-Medical School Student—or Just Interested in Learning Hard Stuff? Check out this excellent article “How We Studied for the Boards,” by Farokh Jamalyaria, MD. Farokh discusses a medicine-specific strategy that many of his physician colleagues and he have used ov …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Jan 29, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! MOOC of the Month While touring the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala, we had the good fortune to visit the film studios that are the home of the fantastic MOOC Discover Don Quijote de la Mancha, about what many call the greatest book of all time. The Don Quijote MOOC, which was th …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Jan 21, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! MOOC of the Month While touring the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala, we had the good fortune to visit the film studios that are the home of the fantastic MOOC Discover Don Quijote de la Mancha, about what many call the greatest book of all time. The Don Quijote MOOC, which was th …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! May 20, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Rap version of Learning How to Learn from Focus: Hope (the chorus features “Coursera!”) Here’s a short, fun, upbeat rap song sent along by Mrs. Ifeoma Okechukwu, the Manager, the Center for Advanced Technologies Engineering Education, Focus: HOPE. It features several of her talented adult lea …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Jan 15, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Barb at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala On Jan 18 and 19th, Barb will be speaking at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín, one of the most vibrant, prestigious universities in Latin America—truly an extraordinary place! If you’d like to attend one of her talks, she’d be thrill …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Jan 8, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Learning math with different parts of the brain Many of you have found our earlier reference to the fast adding methods of Flash Anzan to be intriguing. Here’s an article by Alex Bellos that explores the abacus with more depth: “Abacus adds up to number joy in Japan: The Far East flies high w …
More >Cheery New Years Greeting from Learning How to Learn! Jan 1, 2016
Happy New Years to our Learning How to Learners! Learning How to Learn stays in the news! Here’s an article in the New York Times by leading tech journalist John Markoff (@markoff) about Learning How to Learn’s status as the #1 most popular MOOC of all time. If you want to learn how to learn, you’ve definitely come to a popular place! Staying On Co …
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