Cognitive Realism: Sorting what's true, and what's merely fashionable about how students learn

Dr. Barbara Oakley is Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Her work focuses on the complex relationship between neuroscience and social behavior. She created and teaches Coursera’s “Learning How to Learn,” one of the world’s most popular massive open online courses with over five million registered students.

Dr. Oakley is a New York Times bestselling author who has published in outlets as varied as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times - her book A Mind for Numbers has sold over a million copies worldwide. She is the winner of the McGraw Prize—the colloquial ‘Nobel Prize for Education’ - and is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.