A Learning Science Summer Reading List – 13 Books to Help You Learn About Learning
Published July 17, 2019
Although we’re year-round book lovers at McGraw-Hill, summer is a season we find ourselves reading even more frequently. We love and appreciate fiction and recommend a balanced summer reading diet, but we also try to keep up on the latest in learning science. To help us build our summer reading lists, we asked members of McGraw-Hill’s Learning Science Advisory Board to recommend some books about the science of learning. Here is our learning science summer reading list!
Recommended by:
Dr. Tanya Joosten, Director of Digital Learning Research and Development and co-PI and co-Director of the National Research Center for Distance Education and Technological Advancements (DETA) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures by By National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
- Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Mark A. McDaniel and Peter C. Brown
- Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James M. Lang
- What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain
- Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate Into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation by Saundra Yancy McGuire
Recommended by:
Dr. Rosemary Luckin, Professor of Learner Centred Design, UCL Knowledge Lab
- The Fourth Education Revolution by Anthony Seldon and Oladimeji Abidoye
- Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
- Machine Learning and Human Intelligence: The future of education for the 21st century by Rosemary Luckin
Recommended by:
Dr. Robert S. Feldman, Senior Advisor to the Chancellor and Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories Behind Effective College Teaching by Josha Eyler
Recommended by:
Dr. Jennifer Kotler Clarke, Vice President of Content Research & Evaluation, Sesame Workshop
- The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness by Todd Rose
Recommended by:
Dr. Richard Larson, MITSUI Professor of Engineering Systems, MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner City Schools and the New Paternalism by David Whitman
Recommended by:
Dr. Ryan Baker, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
- The ABCs of How We Learn: 26 Scientifically Proven Approaches, How They Work, and When to Use Them by Daniel L. Schwartz, Jessica M. Tsang, and Kristen P. Blair
Recommended by:
Robert Ubell, Vice Dean Emeritus, Online Learning at NYU School of Engineering, NYU
- Virtual Teamwork: Mastering the Art and Practice of Online Learning and Corporate Collaboration by Robert Ubell, Frank Mayadas, Jerry Hultin