Tucson Festival of Books

Transforming How We Learn


The groundbreaking book "Grasp" explores the science of how we learn. Join the authors as they discuss the neuroscience behind learning strategies, the most effective teaching techniques in the classroom and how the future of learning science will prepare us for the 21st century.


Panelists
Sanjay Sarma

Sanjay Sarma is the vice president for Open Learning at MIT. Sarma serves on the board of edX, the not-for-profit company founded by MIT and Harvard to create and promulgate an open-source platform for the distribution of free online education worldwide, as well as the boards of GS1, EPCglobal and several startup companies including Hochschild Mining and Top Flight Technologies....

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Luke Yoquinto

Luke Yoquinto is a science writer who covers learning and education, as well as aging and demographic change in his role as a researcher at the MIT AgeLab. With Sanjay Sarma, he is the author of "Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn....

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