A book for learners of all ages containing the best and most updated advice on learning from neuroscience and cognitive psychology.
BARBARA OAKLEY, PhD, PE is a Professor of Engineering at Oakland
University and Michigan's Distinguished Professor of the Year for
2018; she is also Coursera's inaugural "Innovation Instructor."
OLAV SCHEWE is the founder and CEO of Educas, an educational
technology startup, that develops solutions to help students learn
how to learn. He is also an educational consultant to one of the
world's largest educational tech companies, Kahoot.
"Learn Like a Pro is the book I wish I'd had when I was a student.
It is jam-packed with practical, evidence-based advice for
overcoming procrastination, strengthening memory, and reading more
effectively. You'll find a nugget of learning gold on every
page."--Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of
When, Drive, and To Sell is Human
"If you want to learn how to learn, I can't think of better guides
than Barbara Oakley and Olav Schewe. They transformed themselves
from struggling students into master teachers, and they've written
an unusually digestible, immediately useful book about how to build
your knowledge, improve your memory, and boost your motivation to
keep getting smarter."--Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling
author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife "As both
an educator and a lifelong student, I've found that most of us hack
our way through when it comes to learning. We collect only an ad
hoc hodgepodge of techniques that happen to cross our paths. But
now I finally see the light. There's a method to optimizing our
learning, a collection of best practices, and we're fools not to
take on learning as a proper discipline. This book covers the
leading methods in such a simple and fun way, it can't help but
inspire you to jump in!"--Eric Siegel, Ph.D., founder of Predictive
Analytics World and author of Predictive Analytics "In Learn Like a
Pro, the authors provide a lively and nicely illustrated guide to
specific activities that can make any of us more effective
learners--and they intersperse instructive and entertaining
cartoons as to why that is the case in terms of underlying neural
changes in the brain."--Robert A. Bjork; Distinguished Research
Professor; University of California, Los Angeles
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