Toward a Science of Learning

Dwayne Harapnuik —  February 14, 2011 — Leave a comment

Diana Chapman Walsh president of Wellesley College from 1993 to 2007 challenges us to consider the recent moves in cognitive science and the scholarship of teaching and learning and asks us to put:

learning rather than amenities at the center of the arms race, spend less on making students more and more comfortable at college and more on making them more and more curious?

Refreshing questions considering the challenges that Arum has put forward Academically Adrift.

Dwayne Harapnuik

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