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Barbara Oakley

Barbara Oakley, PhD, a 'female Indiana Jones,' is one of the few women to hold a doctorate in systems engineering. She chronicled her adventures on Soviet fishing boats in the Bering Sea in Hair of the Dog: Tales from Aboard a Russian Trawler. She also served as a radio operator in Antarctica and rose from private to captain in the U.S. Army. Now an associate professor of engineering at Oakland University in Michigan, Oakley is a recent vice president of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Her work has appeared in publications ranging from The New York Times to the IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience.Website
years of life: 24 November 1955 present

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Anastasia Prisyazhnayahas quoted2 years ago
Chunking (right) is the mental leap that helps you unite bits of information together through meaning.
Anastasia Prisyazhnayahas quoted2 years ago
We’ll talk more about transfer later.
Anastasia Prisyazhnayahas quoted2 years ago
There is a bottom-up chunking process where practice and repetition can help you both build and strengthen each chunk, so you can easily gain access to it when needed. And there is a top-down “big picture” process that allows you to see where what you are learning fits in.9 Both processes are vital in gaining mastery over the material.
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