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 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 …
More >Cheery update from Learning How to Learn! May 23, 2015
Hello, Learning How to Learners! We hope you’re having a great week! All is going well in Learning How to Learn–you are currently joined with some 220,000 learners in this On Demand version of the course, which shows how popular and useful learning how to learn can be! Help with writing If you’ve been thinking about doing final project, or you hav …
More >Another cheery update from Learning How to Learn! May 16, 2015
CHEERY GREETINGS! It’s exciting seeing the incredible progress people are making in Learning How to Learn. For example, in this very week, there are some 28,000 of you from all around the world actively working on the modules. Wow! Now’s the time to pull up the next video with your many fellow learners and enjoy! Barb is in the Southeastern US righ …
More >Hello and a cheery update from Learning How to Learn! May 8, 2015
CHEERY GREETINGS! All is going well in the online land of Learning How to Learn, and we just wanted to share our weekly update. 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 for Learning How to Learn, which features many of the terrific projects people have d …
More >Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Apr 29, 2015
CHEERY GREETINGS! We wanted to give you a little update on Learning How to Learn. It turns out that our course is Coursera’s most popular On Demand MOOC—we’re nearing million total students signed up from over 200 countries around the world! So where ever you are at in the course, we’re hoping you’re enjoying the materials! • NEW BONUS INTERVIEWS Y …
More >Altered Traits
Cheery Almost Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Greetings from India! If you happen to be in New Delhi, Barb has a meetup tonight (November 3rd) from 6:00 to 7:00 pm in the lobby of The Westin Gurgaon, New Delhi. Her deep dive webinar into retrieval practice for Indian learners on November 5th is here. Altered Traits: Science Revea …
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Blueprint
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are, by Robert Plomin. With the rapid advancements in genomic sequencing and the ever-expanding field of behavioral genetics, we feel the age-old question of “nature vs. nurture” is one of the hottest debates around. After all, scientists …
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