Mastering Memory
Sophisticated learners are intellectually curious, confident, and self-directed learners—and are developed in the classroom. In this course, educators learn how to cultivate their students into self-directed learners by studying the key aspects of the functional architecture of human learning, mastering effective strategies and techniques for learning, and understanding how students can self-monitor and control their own learning.
An important prerequisite to becoming a sophisticated learner is mastering one’s memory. Memory is synonymous with learning and is greatly malleable. Students rely on their ability to encode and retrieve information to learn what is taught in school. Despite compelling research supporting the efficacy of techniques and strategies to enhance a student’s ability to learn, those are widely unknown to them. Instead, students tend to rely on ineffective practices.
Educators will learn to develop sophisticated learners and master proven techniques to facilitate the encoding of learned information, as well as strategies for retrieval of that information, in this three-module course.
Course Modules
This course consists of ~15 hours of self-led asynchronous e-learning, which are complemented with live synchronous office hours to support learners. Learners are encouraged to maintain a pace of one module per week to be in sync with each other to promote meaningful peer discussion and collaboration and to benefit from scheduled office hours and webinars.
Professional Development on the Science of Learning delivered by top learning scientists online to educators anywhere in the world
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COGx is the finest example I've encountered of cutting edge research on learning sciences applied to educational methodology. All educators should be required to learn effective strategies to develop the foundational cognitive skills students need to engage in the critical thinking and creative problem solving that 21st century demands
Guest Lecturers
Global experts on human learning provide the scientific base of our content, while course facilitators and subject matter experts translate the science and guide application to your classroom.
David Daniel Professor at James Madison University
Relevant Affiliation:Founding Managing Editor: Mind, Brain & Education Journal. Top Professor Award Areas of Expertise:Teaching & Learning, Cognitive Development Education:PhD in Developmental Psychology, West Virginia University
John Hattie Leading education researcher, specializing in performance indicators, models of measurement and evaluation of teaching and learning outcomes globally.
Areas of Expertise: Led 30 years of research and synthesis of 1,500 meta-analyses comprising more than 90,000 studies involving over 300 million students around the world, which is believed to be the world’s largest evidence-based study into the factors which improve student learning. Education: PhD Statistics University of Toronto
Robert Bjork Distinguished Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Psychology
Relevant Affiliation: Learning & Forgetting Lab, UCLA
Areas of Expertise: Human Learning & Memory; Implications of Science of Learning for Instruction Education: PhD in Psychology Stanford University
Jarrett Lovelett Research in human learning and memory
Relevant Affiliation: Learning Attention & Perception Lab Area of Expertise: Memory & Learning Education: BA Cognitive Science, Yale University; PhD Candidate Cognitive Psychology University of California San Diego
Elizabeth Bjork
Professor of Cognitive Psychology at University of California, Los Angeles; Psychology Department.
Relevant Affiliation: Learning & Forgetting Lab Areas of Expertise: Human Learning & Memory; Implications of Science of Learning for Teacher Instruction Education: PhD in Psychology from University of Michigan
Asynchronous Course Elements
Synchronous Course Elements
Learning Outcomes
Educator's will be able to:
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Construct a framework that illustrates successful, self-directed learner skills and behaviors.
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Summarize the scientific principles of effective multimedia learning and modify their teaching accordingly.
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Understand the architecture of long-term memory, how it is connected to learning and how it can be enhanced.
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Teach techniques and strategies to students so they can encode and retrieve information.
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Integrate classroom-based tactics into lessons to improve student learning and test-taking performance.
Course Facilitators
Carmen Constantinescu
PhD Special Education Policy, University of Maryland; Universal Design for Learning. Instructional Design & Teacher Training
Areas of Expertise:
Cognitive development, teacher training, instructional accommodations and best teaching practices for students with disabilities.
Peling Li
Ed.D. Special Education, Johns Hopkins University; MA International Education Development, Columbia University
Areas of Expertise:
Teacher training and development, and special education. Experienced educator and coach to teachers; professor of graduate courses at Urban Teachers, Johns Hopkins University.
Javier Arguello
MPA, Harvard University; MBA, Yale University; Graduate Fellow Cognitive Science, MIT
Areas of Expertise:
Research translation in cognitive science; development of programs to enhance learning outcomes.
We Practice What We Teach: Professional Development Designed Around the Science of Learning
Our Professional Development (PD) on the Science of Learning democratizes access to decades of research on human learning. It also incorporates the scientific principles of human learning to how deliver the course.
Learning through our PD is active, engaging, collaborative, and application-based. Our course will invigorate your lesson planning with science-based tools that will enable your students to master what you teach.
12 Modules | 12 Weeks | 24 Hours of PD
Testimonials From Teachers at COGx Partner Schools
Without the ability to remember definitions, facts, or details, students are stranded at the most basic level of understanding. The COGx methodology gives me the tools to train my students, to strengthen their memory through direct instruction of activities that build visualization, strengthen comprehension as ideas are linked through meaningful connections, and efficiently organize information that can be easily retrieved.
A wide range of information on brain function and how understanding brain function can aid teaching and learning. I appreciated having the video lesson as a follow up to the readings.
I really like how the course was set up. I also liked the questions from priming quizzes. The questions cause you to exercise your critical thinking skills. The topic was always great! I learned a lot about how I process information... it literally helped me personally as well as to become a better teacher!
I think the topics of this course should be given as teacher training for all teachers. This was the first time I had had any type of training on how to work with students who may have different roadblocks to attention, working memory and processing speed. This training helped me to understand my students much better