Learning science

  • Are courses obsolete?

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    The most criticised container in education is also the most durable. Here is what we learned from health workers participating in The Geneva Learning Foundation’s courses about why that is so difficult to change. The obituary that keeps being written In 2013, Sebastian Thrun looked at the completion rates for the massive open online courses…

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  • What 30 years of meeting science tells global health

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    Steven Rogelberg, Liana Kreamer, and Jon Gray have published a review of three decades of research on meetings in the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior. Anyone who funds or attends convenings in global health should read it, because it settles a number of questions we have been arguing from intuition. It also…

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