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! Nov 27, 2015
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Discussion Forums The discussion forum is often a fountain for fascinating conversation. Here you can find a discussion of the difference between the two intriguing, but sometimes confused, topics of “transfer” and “interleaving.” A Surprise Book Recommendation for Teachers—and for Everyone B …
More >Cheery Weekend Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Nov 22, 2015
Cheery Weekend greetings to our Learning How to Learners! The Inspiration Behind Learning How to Learn Here’s an interview with Barb “Формула успеха: как математика помогает людям жит.” (Okay, so the interview’s in Russian.) The interview provides additional background about the book A Mind for Numbers—which formed the basis for the MOOC Learning H …
More >Cheery Wednesday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Nov 11, 2015
Cheery Wednesday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! South Africa, here we come! Our email is a bit early again this week–that’s because Learning How to Learn is coming to South Africa! Barb and her husband Phil (also known as “the Hero”), will be having dinner in Cape Town with a Learning How to Learner on the evening of November 13th. We’ …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Nov 6, 2015
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! The behind the scenes sizzle in MOOC-making Barb’s article “Why Virtual Classes Can Be Better than Real Ones” has gotten a lot of interest by “MOOCers and shakers” in industry. Check it out if you want to learn some of the behind the scenes thinking that helped bring you Learning How to Learn …
More >Cheery Friday greetings from Learning How to Learn! Oct 28, 2015
Cheery greetings to our Learning How to Learners! A Meetup in Singapore! This week’s email is going out a little early because Barb is currently in Singapore, and she’d like to meet up with any local Learning How to Learners. Our meetup will be at the offices of Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group (AKLTG): Date: 1 November 2015 (Sunday) Time: 10a …
More >Cheery Friday Greeting from Learning How to Learn! Oct 22, 2015
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Barb is in Beijing today to speak at Baidu headquarters about learning. It’s an exciting day! Unbelievable: the Flash Anzan Method Barb’s friend Manabu Watanabe is the author of the intriguing and well-researched book Juku: The Stealth Force of Education and the Deterioration of Schools in Ja …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Oct 16, 2015
Cheery weekend greetings to our Learning How to Learners! New Learning after Traumatic Brain Injury Learning How to Learner Laurel Shannon Lawson was a professional executive and leader until she was hit by a bus in 2008, and then run over as a pedestrian in 2010. In addition to spinal and other injuries, she sustained traumatic brain injury. As pa …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Oct 9, 2015
Cheery Weekend Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! We Need You! We’re recruiting new Community Mentors at the moment. If you’re interested in helping Learning How to Learn as a Mentor, then we’d love to hear from you! This form has more details on what being a Mentor means: to apply, please read the form, fill it out, and submit your answers …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Sep 25, 2015
Cheery Friday Greetings to Our Learning How to Learners! If you’d like to gain perspective on why Learning How to Learn is such a meaningful course for people, read this blog post, “How I lost 24 pounds in 12 weeks amidst severe personal turmoil without dieting or going to the gym,” by writer Roy Huff. (And then perhaps give him one of the greatest …
More >Cheery Weekend Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Sep 19, 2015
Cheery Weekend Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Just a few short notes for this week. First off, your course supplemental text, A Mind for Numbers, made the Business Insider list of “7 books that will train your brain to overachieve.” It’s on the list with some of the world’s most beloved books—read and enjoy, if you haven’t already! Barb …
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