Grasp, 9781472139139
Paperback
Unlock your learning potential: neuroscience-backed tools for lifelong knowledge absorption.

Grasp

the science transforming how we learn

$36.15

  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    11 December 2023

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Summary

Unlock Your Learning Potential: A Journey into the Science of Grasping Knowledge

As the head of Open Learning at MIT, Sanjay Sarma has a daunting job description: to fling open the doors of the MIT experience for the benefit of the wider world. But if you’re going to undertake such an ambitious project, you must first ask: How exactly does learning work? What conditions are most conducive? Are our traditional classroom methods - lecture, homework, test, repeat - actually effective? …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781472139139
ISBN-10:1472139135
Author:Sanjay Sarma, Luke Yoquinto
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Robinson
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:11 December 2023
Weight:280g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 28mm
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Critics Review

‘Sarma’s book may be the most important work on education written this century’ - Skeptic‘Compelling… Delightful as well as convincing in its plea that educators place learning over winnowing and access over exclusivity’ - Kirkus‘Grasp is an absolute pleasure to read … An important contribution to the literature on learning science and higher education change … Grasp can provide the foundations of what learning-science-informed teaching might look like, with some fantastic real-world examples’ - Inside Higher Ed‘A remarkable book, both lively and scholarly. I strongly recommend it for anyone interested in the history of ideas about learning and who is interested in improving teaching and learning’ - Henry L. Roediger, III, co-author of Make it Stick‘An amazing book… The authors provide an overview of the neural and cognitive processes that support learning…They make a convincing case that students have an amazing capacity to learn’ - Robert A. Bjork, Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology, UCLA

About The Author

Sanjay Sarma

Sanjay Sarma (Author)

SANJAY SARMA is the head of Open Learning at MIT. A professor of mechanical engineering by training, he has worked in the fields of energy and transportation; computational geometry; computer assisted design; and has been a pioneer in RFID technology. He has advanced degrees from Carnegie Mellon and UC Berkeley.

Luke Yoquinto (Author)

LUKE YOQUINTO is a science writer who covers learning and education, as well as aging and demographic change in his role as a researcher at the MIT AgeLab. His work can be found in publications such as The Washington Post, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic. He is a graduate of Boston University’s science journalism program.

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