Grasp av Sanjay Sarma, Luke Yoquinto

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<p><b>''Sarma''s book may be the most important work on education written this century'' - <i>Skeptic</i></b><br><br>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? And if not, which techniques are?<br><br><i>Grasp</i> takes readers across multiple frontiers, from fundamental neuroscience to cognitive psychology and beyond, as it explores the future of learning. For instance:<br><br>¿ Scientists are studying the role of forgetting, exposing it not as a simple failure of memory but a critical weapon in our learning arsenal<br>¿ New developments in neuroimaging are helping us understand how reading works in the brain. It''s become poss