Just a quick note to say a massive thank you to Kay for her contributions below (I'm looking forward to reading your blog, Kay - https://iad4learnteach.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/revising-and-mapping-what-works/); and to announce that Debbie Holley has told me she will be bogging about this project and adding some of her 'must-reads' too ...
Cheers
John
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From: John Hilsdon
Sent: 13 October 2015 15:06
To: Learning List ([log in to unmask])
Subject: Re: Must-reads for Learning Developers?
Dear John,
For me Noel Entwistle’s Teaching for Understanding at University: Deep Approaches and Distinctive Ways of Thinking, published by Palgrave in 2009, brought a lot of strands together.
You might also want to consider:
Entwistle, N., & McCune, V. (2013). The disposition to understand for oneself at university: Integrating learning processes with motivation and metacognition. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 83, 267–279.
More recently an article in Scientific American Mind led me towards a different range of American research literature which has influenced what I say to students in workshops and on a one-to-one basis.
Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., & Willingham, D. T. (2013, September/October). What Works, What Doesn’t. Scientific American Mind, 46-53.
Which led to:
Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., & Willingham, D. T. (2013). Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 14(1), 4-58.
And:
Blunt, J. R., & Karpicke, J. D. (2014, February 17). Learning With Retrieval-Based Concept Mapping. Journal of Educational Psychology, 1-9. Advance online publication retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0035934
I wrote a blog item about these here:
https://iad4learnteach.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/revising-and-mapping-what-works/
The books below published last year cover similar themes:
Brown, P. C., Roediger, H. L., & McDaniel, M. A. (2014). Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning. Cambridge, Mass. USA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. (Reviewed in the THE by my colleague Hazel Christie here: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/make-it-stick-the-science-of-successful-learning-by-peter-c-brown-henry-l-roediger-iii-and-mark-a-mcdaniel/2012346.article )
Oakley, B. (2014). A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra). Los Angeles: Jeremy P Tarcher (Penguin).
(Linked to the Coursera MOOC Learning how to learn: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn )
Hope that’s helpful.
Best wishes, Kay
Dr J Kay Williams
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