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Learning How to Learn for Youth: a Review of the Course

Readers of Online Learning Success may already know I am a big fan of Learning How to Learn, an online course created by Barbara Oakley and Terrence Sejnowski. The same instructors are behind Mindshift, another encouraging course created to help people take the plunge into new careers.

I was excited in early December to discover Learning How to Learn for Youth, a new offering from Drs Oakley and Sejnowski, alongside Gregory Hammons. Motivational speaker is just one of Hammons’ talents, and his enthusiastic style fits in beautifully with the other presenters.

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Extinctions Past and Present: a Review of the Course

Dinosaurs perished in the last mass extinction

Regular readers may already know that I have an interest in the natural world and how living things interact with each other ecologically, both now and in the past. Because of this, I was keen to join the Extinctions: Past and Present course offered through FutureLearn. The next run of this course will start on April 30, 2018. Continue reading