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How to access Learning to Learn

If you have an account on the LDRC Course Server, submit your login and password above to enter the course. Otherwise, register an ATutor System Account, or login as a guest. Click on "Register" above and complete at least the top portion of the registration form. It's FREE, and so is the course. When you have submitted your registration, you will be granted immediate access to the courses on the ATutor system. Return here and enter your login information, or click on "Browse Courses," then choose Learning to Learn and log in. To Enroll and gain full access to all the tools and activites, click on the enroll link on the opening screen of the course.

About Learning to Learn

Learning to Learn is self-guided 10 week course designed to raise learners' awareness of the cognitive and metacognitive aspects of thinking and learning. With this knowledge, learners are better able to understand:

1. How their minds work
2. How different people approach learning tasks in different ways
3. What strategies will work best for them
4. How to successfully adapt their abilities for tasks that fall outside their profile of strengths

With this knowledge, learners develop an attitude toward learning that includes curiosity, motivation, and a drive to learn more.

The course modules include:

1. Consciousness: dreams, daydreams, conscious and unconscious thought, meditation, concentration, and attention.
2. Metacognition: models of thinking, automation of conscious thought, accessing automatic processes, practice effects, and self-awareness.
3. Learning Styles: distinctions between perceptual and structural learning styles (i.e. visual, verbal, kinesthetic vs. sequential, hierarchical, global).
4. Memory: long term vs. short term, episodic vs. declarative, mnemonics.
5. Language: evolution of languages, types of languages, transmission of meaning, learning from context, vocabulary building, representational abilities, language and thought.
6. Reading: phonological and orthographic processes, comprehension, reading disability, study strategies.
7. Writing: types of writing systems, evolution of writing systems, grammar, words and inflections, writing for all occasions, communicating ideas.
8. Problem Solving: types of problems, problem-solving styles, visual, verbal, numeric, induction, deduction.
9. Creativity: creativity vs. intelligence vs. wisdom, insight, intuition, divergence vs. convergence.
10. Biology: the brain, perceptual organs, pathologies.