Celisa Steele interviews Dr. Barbara Oakley, professor, speaker, and author of A Mind for Numbers : How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra), and Mindshift : Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential. Her wildly popular massive open online course (MOOC), Learning How to Learn. has attracted 2 million participants.
Celisa talks with Barbara about why helping people learn about learning is so effective, the importance of creating better online materials, and tips for organizations who provide learning to create more value by focusing on these areas.
Full show notes at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode104.
Highlighted Resource – a Web page we’ve compiled that focuses specifically on massive open online courses and provides information that is useful for anyone considering using MOOCs in a professional development context.
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