How The Brain Learns

I took an amazing course on Coursera recently, called "Learning How To Learn." I would highly recommend it, as it explains really well how (according to what scientists know so far) the brain learns, and discusses a great number of practical tools to improve learning. A lot of it is initially geared towards people studying for exams, or coming to terms with subjects that aren't familiar to them yet, but great number of things discussed applies to the kind of learning and problem solving we're having to do in our jobs every day.

I was so excited about all the new information, that I mashed it all up into a presentation for this week's all staff knowledge sharing at 7digital, as I thought it would be useful for all of us (and because I learned that there's no more powerful way of learning something than to try and teach it). The slides of that talk are below.