Professor of Engineering Barbara Oakley is the instructor of Learning How to Learn (Coursera), one of the world’s largest MOOCs, with over four million students. In this presentation, she will show you useful information about how you and those you work with can more easily master new and difficult material—and establish an even richer learning culture for those you work with.

– See what the patterns of expertise look like in the brain and learn how to build those patterns more quickly and with less frustration.
– Learn why it’s perfectly normal to not understand something difficult the first time its encountered. You’ll see how knowledge of how the brain works cannot protect against feelings of frustration and failure when something seems difficult to learn.
– Discover simple tools to tackle procrastination.
– Learn how to handle interruptions in your learning, and why small periods of mindlessness can be so valuable in learning.
– Learn the surprising advantages of having a bad memory and sometimes being a slower learner.

Dr. Oakley’s previous book, A Mind for Numbers, is a New York Times and international best-seller translated into over a dozen languages. Her most recent book is the critically acclaimed Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn.

Co-sponsored by: sharan kalwani

Speaker(s): Barbara Oakley,

Agenda:
06:00 PM – Welcome and Introductions, Chapter business update;

06:05 PM – Technical Talk/Presentation

06:55 PM – End Technical Talk/Presentation, begin Q & A

07:25 PM – Wrap Up

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Room: Digital, Bldg: Virtual, Rochester, Michigan, United States, 48309, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/306061