It made learning surprisingly addictive ...

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I’ve had a lifelong love of learning, to the point where I used to read encyclopedias and dictionaries as a child, along with a variety of non-fiction books around specific topics. This love of ...

Remember high school? Your friends, your music, your style? What lessons from high school classes do you still use today? If you could go back, what do you wish you’d learned about real life? Research ...

A Chobani in one hand and a spoon in my mouth, I open my laptop and go to Coursera.org. I click on “Sequence Models” in my course catalog. Though I have been awake for less than 10 minutes, I feel a ...

I went to college at 40 — when I was a mother of five children. My first statistics class was so difficult that I became stressed and ignored my motherly duties. When my schoolwork became so stressful ...

Elisabeth Gruner is affiliated with the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education, which focuses on professional development for faculty. I’ve been teaching college ...