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Jesse Martin Higher Education Expert

Jesse is a world leader in the integration of the science of learning into formal teaching settings. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Lethbridge and Director at The Academy for the Scholarship of Learning. Huge advocate of the science of learning, he provides people with ideas about how they can use it in their classrooms. Jesse holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Wales, Bangor.

Fundamental Educational Reform

Educational reform is needed – maybe a bit of an understatement. As a sector of society, higher education has dropped the ball. The majority of our graduates enter higher education desiring nothing more than a qualification and the qualification machine pushes them through with most of the students and the professors doing the minimum required to ensure that there are graduates produced with a qualification in hand.

Written by: Jesse Martin
27/03/2018
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The Right Stuff

No, I mean The Right Answer. What is the right answer? What is the right solution? What is the right conclusion? What is the right thinking? What did I say? What is the right answer?

Written by: Jesse Martin
26/03/2018
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Peace, Prosperity, and Potential

Now, this is a big one. Given the behavioral changes that occur when people are taught higher order thinking skills, imagine the world we would live in if we taught every person who emerged from higher education higher order thinking skills. The Science of Learning tells us how these skills can be taught; we just have to want to do it.

Written by: Jesse Martin
24/03/2018
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Critical Thinking and Metacognition

One of the main problems with learning to think critically is the problem of transference. This is a problem that plagues learning in general. How do we take what we have learned and use it in a way that we have not been trained to use it?