Spring 2024: How Humans Learn (Eyler, 2018)

The text for Spring 2024 is Joshua R. Eyler’s book How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories Behind Effective College Teaching (West Virginia University Press, 2018). See what folks are saying about this book:

“Beautiful Questions: ‘How Humans Learn’ and the Future of Education” by Ryan Boyd for the Los Angeles Review of Books

“Why ‘How Humans Learn’ Is the Book I’ve Been Waiting For” by Joshua Kim for InsideHigherEd.com


Suggested Reading Schedule

February Introduction and Chapter 1: Curiosity (64 pages)

March Chapter 2: Sociality (48 pages)

April Chapter 3: Emotion and Chapter 4: Authenticity (36 pages)

May Chapter 5: Failure and Epilogue (52 pages)