Author

Books by Barbara Oakley and Olav Schewe

Barbara Oakley is a professor of engineering at Oakland University in Michigan and a Distinguished Professor of Online Learning at Créighton University. Her earlier book A Mind for Numbers and its associated Coursera course "Learning How to Learn" have been taken by millions of students worldwide. She came to engineering late, having initially struggled severely with mathematics, which grounds her practical approach to learning science. Olav Schewe is a Norwegian student learning consultant and cofounder of a learning technology company. Together they teach the Coursera course "Learn Like a Pro."