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Subject: EDUCNumber: 793
Title: Brain Works: Better Teaching with the Brain in Mind
Level: GraduateMedium: Text-based
Semester: On-goingUnits: 3
Cost: $360Register: Online Registration (LEI courses)
Description: 
Filled with the latest information on how the brain learns, this course will energize and inspire! Learn how to teach in a more meaningful, powerful manner. Explore the role of emotion, retention, windows of opportunity, the primacy-recency effect, and much more. Whether this is your first brain course or your 4th, there is much here for you!
Objectives: 
  1. Understand how the brain encodes, manipulates, and stores information.
  2. Understand how emotion can enhance or impede learning.
  3. Understand the important role the following concepts play in learning: windows of opportunity, closure, primacy-recency effect, working memory capacity, elaborate rehearsal.
  4. Apply brain-based learning to the classroom.
  5. Design a series of activities using brain-based strategies.
Textbook: NA
Instructor: Kyle Pederson, Joe Cotter, Dr. William Martin
Website Updated: September 2, 2008
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