Education Innovation
Module 1
Learning How To Learn
6 Courses
Learning how to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects Platform: Coursera Institution: University of California, San Diego Started: 09/10/2014 Finished: 09/11/2014 Learning to Dream: Education and Economic Mobility Platform: Canvas Institution: ExcelinEd Started: 16/09/2016 Finished: 17/09/2016 The Neuroscience of Learning Platform: LinkedIn Institution: LinkedIn Learning Started: 20/12/2017 Finished: 23/12/2017 The Nature of Genius
Learning How to Increase Learner Engagement Platform: LinkedIn Institution: LinkedIn Learning Started: 23/12/2017 Finished: 26/12/2017 New Learning: Principles and Practices of Pedagogy Platform: Coursera Institution: University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign Started: 31/08/2018 Finished: 01/09/2018
2 Books
How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens Author: Benedict Carey Publisher: Random House Audiobooks Published: 2014 Started: 29/10/2018 Finished: 04/11/2018 Reading, Writing and Arithmetic: Mastering the Three Rs of an Old-Fashioned Education Author: Daniel Smith Publisher: Michael O’Mara Published: 2013 Started: 29/03/2019 Finished: 24/05/2021
“You can’t learn without memorizing, and if done right, you can’t memorize without learning. Memory needs to be taught as a skill in exactly the same way that flexibility and strength and stamina are taught to build up a person’s physical health and well being… Students need to learn how to learn. First you teach them how to learn, then you teach them what to learn.“
Tony Buzan in Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein, 2012:195
Learning is an art and everyone has their own style. The ability to master your own learning style is vastly more important than trying to remember lots of facts and figures, because once you’ve mastered your learning style, you will always have the mental flexibility to learn new things.
One of the reasons why I decided to build my own education was so that I could pull apart the process of education and improve my overall effectiveness at learning new information. I also wanted to unlearn the narrow-minded beliefs and outdated learning approaches I had acquired from my traditional formal education.
A resource that really epitomised the fresh approach to learning I wanted to utilise was the hugely popular MOOC, Learning How to Learn which, hence why I named this module after it.