Barbara Oakley shares about her course, Speak Freely, Think Critically, and gives practical advice about teaching on episode 592 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Learning is hard. Your job as a professor, as a teacher, is to help make it understandable, to help make it easier.

If you look at free speech from a historical and neuroscientific perspective, you can get a much better sense of people’s motivations and the continuing patterns that we see through history of people being really pro free speech until it affects them.
-Barbara Oakley

Really intelligent people find it very hard to be flexible, to change their mind.
-Barbara Oakley

Learning is hard. Your job as a professor, as a teacher, is to help make it understandable, to help make it easier.
-Barbara Oakley

Resources

Speak Freely, Think Critically: The Free Speech Balance Act
Sway.AI
Barbara Oakley – Coursera Instructor Profile
Learning How to Learn
Think Critically: Deductive Reasoning and Mental Models
Barbara Oakley’s Website
Barbara Oakley – Wikipedia
Academy of Ideas: The Hidden Neuroscience of Democracy
A Mind for Numbers, by Barbara Oakley
Retrieval Practice (retrievalpractice.org)
Obsidian
How and Why I Use Obsidian, by Robert Talbert
SmarterHumans.ai

Metaphors, Free Speech, and How We Learn with Barbara Oakley

Teaching in Higher Ed

Metaphors, Free Speech, and How We Learn with Barbara Oakley