COURSE DESCRIPTION
Imagine all the possibilities that would lie before you if you were able to learn any new material quickly and efficiently- the world would be your oyster!
This course provides this very opportunity. Improve your ability to optimise your learning outcomes by discovering cognitive science’s latest findings and adjusting your learning behaviours accordingly. Explore the concepts of active listening, cognitive bias, and content chunking for better learning while reviewing techniques for building focus, managing procrastination, and optimising productive work time.
The course will allow you to dive deep into the recesses of your brain, mind and memory to change the way you process information and store it for the future, especially in the current scenario of technologically induced hyper information. Students will also discover how the cultural fabric and organisational structure of companies can impact the learning of employees. By drawing on current discussions on learning and teaching technologies and styles, this course will enable individuals to be the best students and employees they can be!
Learning Objectives:
- Acquire powerful mental tools to maximise your learning potential through cognitive science
- Self-Determination on changing learning and thinking patterns
- Identifying and mitigating cognitive bias in the social and professional environment
- Be equipped to deal with procrastination
- Increase the ability to negotiate and improve social ties
Prerequisites: minimum 650 TOEIC score
DESCRIPTION DU COURS
Imaginez toutes les possibilités qui s’offriront à vous si vous pouviez apprendre de nouveaux matériaux rapidement et efficacement – le monde serait à vous!
Ce cours offre cette opportunité. Améliorez vos capacités d’apprentissage en étudiant les techniques et modes d’apprentissage validés par les sciences cognitives et en ajustant vos comportements d’apprentissage. Explorez les concepts d’écoute active, de biais cognitif et de “content chunking” tout en examinant les techniques de concentration, de gestion de la procrastination et d’optimisation du temps de travail productif.
Ce cours vous permettra de plonger dans les recoins de votre cerveau, de votre esprit et de votre mémoire afin de modifier la façon dont vous traitez l’information et la stocker pour l’avenir, en particulier dans le scénario actuel de l’hyper-information induite par la technologie. Les étudiants découvriront également comment le tissu culturel et la structure organisationnelle des entreprises peuvent avoir un impact sur l’apprentissage des employés. En s’appuyant sur les débats actuels autour des technologies et des styles d’apprentissage et d’enseignement, ce cours permettra aux individus d’être les meilleurs étudiants et employés possible!
Objectifs:
- Acquérir des outils mentaux puissants pour maximiser votre potentiel d’apprentissage grâce aux sciences cognitives
- Autodétermination sur le changement des schémas d’apprentissage et de réflexion
- Identifier et atténuer les biais cognitifs dans l’environnement social et professionnel
- Être équipé pour faire face à la procrastination
- Augmenter la capacité à négocier et améliorer les liens sociaux
Prerequisites: minimum 650 TOEIC score
Links to resources for presentations or summaries:
EMPTYING THE MIND
How to learn anything:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtJy69cEOtQ
Breaking old habits: https://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/8-ways-build-good-habits-break-bad-ones/
Importance of sleep: https://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/surprising-importance-sleep/
Predictive coding and the brain: https://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/predictive-coding/
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/robots-wrote-this-story/
Curiosity and memory: https://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/piquing-curiosity-helps-us-retain-boring-information-too/
Intelligence, Negotiation and Charity: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/smarter-living/negotiation-tips-giver-taker.html?algo=identity&fellback=false&imp_id=996544180&imp_id=637499826&action=click&module=Smarter%20Living&pgtype=Homepage
TECHNOLOGY AND SLEEP
Smartphones and brain power: https://www.wsj.com/video/how-smartphones-sabotage-your-brains-ability-to-focus/72E56EB0-0B92-44BF-9897-08461040E3E8.html
LEARNING HABITS
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-30-second-habit-that-_b_4808632
Multitasking and learning:https://www.chronicle.com/article/divided-attention/
Pomodoro technique: https://lifehacker.com/productivity-101-a-primer-to-the-pomodoro-technique-1598992730
Thinking and language: https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think#t-840495
https://www.languagementoring.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZYOScgVc3g
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3069211?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Learning languages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0yGdNEWdn0
Learning with speed:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVO8Wt_PCgE
Learning and the brain: https://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/10-things-discovered-learning-brain-2018/
Learning styles: https://www.avadolearning.com/blog/the-7-different-learning-styles-and-what-they-mean/
https://www.inspireeducation.net.au/blog/the-seven-learning-styles/
Learning models: https://thepeakperformancecenter.com/educational-learning/learning/preferences/learning-styles/types-learning-style-models/
Myth of learning styles: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-myth-of-learning-styles/557687/
Memory palace:https://litemind.com/memory-palace/
Learning with distractions: https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/11/05/498477634/learning-in-the-age-of-digital-distraction?t=1621855701992
ONLINE ACTIVITIES AND TOOLS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNHBMFCzznE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdUbIlwHRkY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks4GnfbCyD4
https://www.wired.com/2010/11/the-cognitive-cost-of-expertise/
Course Features
- Lecture 0
- Quiz 0
- Duration 21 hours
- Skill level All levels
- Language English / French
- Students 1
- Assessments Yes
