Learning how to learn for real engineering, not for exams
The study habits that got you through exams are close to useless for getting good at engineering. Here's what the research actually says about learning that lasts, and how to do it.
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The teenage brain, minus the panic: what changes from 17 to 22, and what a good programme does about it
The alarmist version of teenage-brain science tells you nothing useful. Here's the calmer, more accurate reading of what changes between 17 and 22, and what a programme should actually do about it.
Why most engineering programmes don't produce engineers: what the learning science actually says works
Five research findings on complex-skill acquisition that most B.Tech programmes ignore, and what a programme looks like when it's designed against the evidence instead.
The forgetting curve is 140 years old. Most engineering programmes act like it doesn't exist.
In 1885, Hermann Ebbinghaus showed that we forget most of what we learn within days unless something specific is done. A note on what the research says, and what changed when we designed against it.