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Professor of Engineering at Oakland University; Author of Learning How To Learn

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Barbara Oakley Biography

Barbara Ann Oakley is an engineering professor at Oakland University. She is active in a variety of research topics, including STEM education, engineering education, and learning methods. Oakley co-created and taught the world's most popular online course on Coursera, Learning How To Learn: Powerful Mental Tools to Help You Master Difficult Subjects. A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science is another book she published (Even If You Flunked Algebra). This is a stand-alone book that supplements the concepts given in the MOOC. Oakley was featured in the Wall Street Journal with an op-ed piece titled How We Should Teach Math. Oakley began her career in the Army before attending the University of Washington and earning a B.A. in Slavic Languages and Literature. Oakley left the military forces once her service was over. She picked engineering as a major in order to better comprehend the communications technology she had worked with in the Army. In 1986, Oakley earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. Oakley worked as a Russian interpreter on Soviet trawlers in the Bering Sea while studying for her degree. She also published a book called Hair of the Dog: Tales from Aboard a Russian Trawler on her adventures at this period. Oakley joined Oakland University as a Professor of Engineering in 1998, after earning a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering. She is still a member of Oakland's Industrial and Systems Engineering Department. Professor Oakley is involved in a variety of research projects. STEM education, engineering education, general learning, online learning, MOOCs and their impacts, and studies of empathy and altruism are examples of these.

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