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! 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 …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Jun 26, 2015
Happy Greetings on a Sunny Friday to our Learning How to Learners! Our friends at Dart Neuroscience are asking if you can help advance research into memory by taking the Dart Neuroscience Memory Challenge.Your help in taking the simple memory test would be deeply appreciated. And if you haven’t seen it already, you may wish to watch this wonderful …
More >Cheery Friday greetings from Learning How to Learn! Jun 19, 2016
Cheery Greetings, as always, to our Learning How to Learners! Hopefully the course is moving along well for you—pop online and watch a video if you’re not finished yet with the course! Meanwhile, lots of updates this week. Special Silicon Valley Learning How to Learn Office Hours Barb will be holding a very special meetup in Silicon Valley on Tuesd …
More >Your Friday update from Learning How to Learn Jun 12, 2015
Cheery Greetings, Learning How to Learners! A brief request here to help Barb’s friends Dhawal Shah and Charlie Chung at Class Central, the great website that tells you about all the best MOOCs. If you could fill out this brief, 90-second survey, it would really help Class Central, and all of us, to better understand our awesome MOOC students. Also …
More >A favor for friends/West coast USA office hours Learning How to Learn Jun 3, 2015
Cheery Greetings, Learning How to Learners! A brief request here to help Barb’s friends Dhawal Shah and Charlie Chung at Class Central, the great website that tells you about all the best MOOCs. If you could fill out this brief, 90-second survey, it would really help Class Central, and all of us, to better understand our awesome MOOC students. Also …
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