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Course - Learning How to Learn

Key Chunks discussed in the course from which you can recall whole course

What is Learning​

  1. Focused and Diffused mode of learning
  2. Pinball analogy

Procrastination, Memory and Sleep​

  1. Working Memory
  2. Long Term Memory
  3. Spaced Repetition
  4. Importance of Sleep

Chunking - The Essentials​

How to create chunks​

  1. Focused Attention
  2. Understanding
  3. Practice

Types of chunking​

  1. Bottom up chunking
  2. Top down chunking

Illusion of competence​

  1. Recalling
  2. Retrieval
  3. Testing
  4. Highlighting
  5. Referencing

Neuromodulators​

  1. Acetylcholine (focused learning and attention)
  2. Dopamine (unexpected rewards)
  3. Serotonin (social life and risk taking behavior)
  4. Noradrenaline

Seeing the Bigger Picture​

  1. Overlearning
  2. Choking
  3. Einstellung (Blocking of creation of new concepts because of older concepts)
  4. Interleaving
  5. Transfer learning
  6. Deliberate Practice

Procrastination​

  1. Will power
  2. Process vs Product
  3. Juggling life and learning

(Reminder / Routine / Reward)​

  1. The cue
  2. The routine
  3. The reward
  4. The belief

Memory​

  1. Visual spatial center
  2. Neuron hooks
  3. Index cards
  4. Meaningful groups
  5. Reconsolidation

Retention​

  1. Consolidation (Move a chunk from STM to LTM)
  2. Reactivation (from LTM to Working Memory / STM)
  3. Reconsolidation (from STM to LTM but changed from previous)

References​

Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects by University of California, San Diego on Coursera taught by Terrence Sejnowski and Barbara Oakley

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn