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Abstract:

For the past 50 years, Richard Mayer’s research program has been driven by a deceptively straightforward question: How can we help people learn in ways so they take what they have learned and apply it to new situations?  This question concerns the classic issue of transfer—the effects of prior learning on new learning—which has been central to both psychology and education since their beginnings more than a century ago.  In this lecture, Professor Mayer will share the fruits of his efforts to figure out how to promote meaningful learning, b

This workshop will be about how to write and structure scientific papers at the grad level and how this is different from writing lab reports or papers as an undergraduate.

If students are interested in further developing their writing, Robby also has the following, more general, grad writing courses:

GRAD/WRIT 280AA: Intro to graduate writing (students practice writing grants, literature reviews, and responses to CFPs in this course)

GRAD/WRIT 281AA: Intro to article writing

When and Where Words and Pictures Interact in Mind and Brain