Bringing the Neuroscience of Learning to Online Teaching

“Drawing from neuroscience, the handbook provides fresh conceptual anchors to the assertion that all educators (including management/business educators) are ‘learning scientists’ (p. xviii) who need to have extensive pedagogical content knowledge - which integrates an in-depth understanding of the mind and how the brain can effectively facilitate learning in the digital space.”

Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa is an instructor at the Harvard University Extension School in a course called the “Neuroscience of Learning: An Introduction to Mind, Brain, Health and Education”, a 100% online, flipped course with a synchronous meeting time. She taught kindergarten–university and is the associate editor of Nature Partner Journal Science of Learning, and an author and international educational consultant. She is the author of the Teachers College Press classic The New Science of Teaching and Learning: Using the Best of Mind, Brain, and Education Science in the Classroom.