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! 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 …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Sep 11, 2015
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! What can you do to increase your study hours? A student asked this question, “What can I do to increase my study hours?” on Quora—click here to see the great answer by one of our Learning How to Learners, Vineet Raj. We Swamped Rafa’s Servers Learning How to Learners were so enthusiastic that …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn Sep 4, 2016
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Lots of things happening in learning! First, Barb did a fun podcast for Jordan Harbinger’s show The Art of Charm. Jordan is a great guy, and his show is one of the most popular on the web, with hundreds of thousands of listeners. Find out why by listening to our podcast. An Inspirational Stor …
More >Cheery Greetings from Learning How to Learn/Barb coming to Singapore and Asia! Aug 27, 2015
Cheery Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Quizlet Some of our wonderful Learning How to Learners have put together a Quizlet to help you in learning the key ideas of our course. Go here if you’d like to learn via Quizlet, and to help your fellow learners by adding new concepts! Finding the Best Credentials Our friends at Class Central are a …
More >Cheery Friday greetings from Learning How to Learn! Jul 31, 2015
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! We hope you have a fun and enjoyable weekend of learning ahead! Things have been going GREAT on Learning How to Learn! It’s time to give you a quick snapshot on how many people share your joy in learning. Altogether, we have 941,222 students who have enrolled for Learning How to Learn. We’re …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Jul 10, 2015
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! In a tradition he began in the first session of Learning How to Learn, Senior Mentor Cristian Artoni has created an amazing Hall of Fame. It features many of the terrific projects people have done for the previous session-based versions of the course. Now, in the on demand platform, join our …
More >Cheery Friday greetings from Learning How to Learn! Jul 3, 2015
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Hopefully your past week has gone beautifully, and you’ll have a little time this weekend to learn. Learning something new helps keep your mind in great shape! Here is an inspiring article by our friend Benny Lewis about how language learning can help with all sorts of learning. Benny’s bonus …
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