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!
The End of Trauma
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Greetings from beautiful Dresden, Germany! Next, Barb heads to Poland to speak for the University of Zielona Góra on October 4th, and to the Bauhaus University Weimar to keynote for the Annual Meeting of the eTeach Network 2021 on October 8th. It’s exciting to see the latest trends in learnin …
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Seven Essentials for Business Success
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week Seven Essentials for Business Success, by George Seidel. Since we aren’t in the world of business, we found Dr. Seidel’s description of the world of business education, and the philosophy of great professor-teachers in business, to be intriguing. The discussion is filled wit …
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Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization, by Edward Slingerland. We were a little taken aback at the title and topic of this book. After all, drunkenness is not a state most of us aspire to—at least not most of the time—and alcoholism is a tremendo …
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Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World, by Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell. In keeping with our enthusiasm for alcoholic beverages and our own previous personal experiences with Marxism, we couldn’t help but be tickled by Lawson and Powell’ …
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Clean: The New Science of Skin
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week Clean: The New Science of Skin, by James Hamblin. Clean begins with a startling claim: author James Hamblin, a medical doctor, had stopped showering for five years and had given up as well on shampoo, conditioner, or soap, except on his hands. With this unusual introduction …
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Uncommon Sense Teaching: The MOOC!
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Today is a very special announcement—we have just launched the new Coursera MOOC Uncommon Sense Teaching! This MOOC is ideal for instructors of all kinds: K12 teachers, professors, parents, business trainers, and instructional designers, as well as those who are simply interested in how we l …
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Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! What will remain in teaching post-pandemic? Barb’s distinguished friend, MOOC maven Shigeru Miyagawa, Professor of Linguistics at MIT has given a fascinating and thought-provoking brief talk for Kent University’s lightning talk series on what influences the pandemic will leave in its wake whe …
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The Swerve
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, by Stephen Greenblatt. One of the things we love about reading is that it allows us to discover how much we don’t know. We had no clue, for example, about how the works of ancient Roman writers were able to make their way through two …
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A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins. Hawkins is a neuroscientist as well as one of the most successful and highly regarded computer architects in Silicon Valley. Some of his scientific papers have become the most downloaded and cited papers in th …
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Course Hero’s Education Summit
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Course Hero’s Education Summit As you may know, we’re huge fans of Course Hero and its ability to help level the playing field for students. (Barb still remembers flunking a test during her undergraduate engineering studies because she wasn’t in the elite clique with access to old tests that …
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