In the spirit of Thinking, Fast and Slow, a groundbreaking look at the science
of learning--how it's transforming education and how we can use it to discover
our true potential, as individuals and across society by a renowned MIT
professor 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, it
behooves you first to ask: How exactly does learning work? What conditions are
most conducive? Are our traditional classroom methods--lecture, homework, test,
repeat--actually effective? And