LEARNING
HOW TO LEARN | BARBARA OAKLEY | TEDXOAKLANDUNIVERSITY
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This
talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED
Conferences. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley is co-teaching one of the
world's largest online classes, "Learning How to Learn", https://www.coursera.org/course/learning
. She
know firsthand how it feels to struggle with math. Dr. Oakley flunked her way
through high school math and science courses, before enlisting in the U.S. Army
immediately after graduation. When she saw how her lack of mathematical and
technical savvy severely limited her options—both to rise in the military and
to explore other careers—she returned to school with a new found determination
to re-tool her brain to master the very subjects that had given her so much
trouble throughout her entire life. Barbara Oakley, PhD, PE is a professor of
engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Her research focuses
on the complex relationship between neuroscience and social behavior, and has
been described as “revolutionary” by the Wall Street Journal. Oakley’s books
have been praised by many leading researchers and writers, including Harvard’s
Steven Pinker and E. O. Wilson, and National Book Award winner Joyce Carol
Oates. Her book A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel in Math and Science (Even If
You Flunked Algebra), will be published by Tarcher-Penguin on July 31, 2014.
Prior to her academic career, Oakley rose from private to captain in the U.S.
Army, during which time she was recognized as a Distinguished Military Scholar.
She met her husband, Philip, when she was working at the South Pole Station in
Antarctica. Her experiences with well-intentioned altruism were shaped by her
work as a Russian translator on Soviet trawlers on the Bering Sea during the
early 1980s. Oakley was designated as an NSF New Century Scholar—she is also a
recipient of the Oakland University Teaching Excellence Award (2013) and the
National Science Foundation’s Frontiers in Engineering New Faculty Fellow
Award. Oakley is an elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and
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