How Humans Learn

The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching

By: Joshua R. Eyler

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

Even on good days, teaching is a challenging profession. One way to make the job of college instructors easier, however, is to know more about the ways students learn. How Humans Learn aims to do just that by peering behind the curtain and surveying research in fields as diverse as developmental psychology, anthropology, and cognitive neuroscience for insight into the science behind learning.

The result is a story that ranges from investigations of the evolutionary record to studies of infants discovering the world for the first time, and from a look into how our brains respond to fear to a reckoning with the importance of gestures and language. Joshua R. Eyler identifies five broad themes running through recent scientific inquiry - curiosity, sociality, emotion, authenticity, and failure - devoting a chapter to each and providing practical takeaways for busy teachers. He also interviews and observes college instructors across the country, placing theoretical insight in dialogue with classroom experience.

©2018 West Virginia University Press (P)2019 Tantor

Performance

The narrator is terrible. The same intonation in nearly every line. Voice quality was grating

the most annoying whiney voice

this reader has the worst performance voice I have ever heard. I was so busy trying to get past HOW the words were said I could not absorb/enjoy WHAT was being said. it's clear this reader had no idea what the words he was saying meant - he emphasized the wrong words, took awkward pauses in sentences - all which proved to obfuscate the meaning of the text.

And then there is his whiney, sarcastic voice. It sounded like every sentence was not treated seriously.

I will not buy books featuring this reader again. He is terrible and needs to take voice acting classes. I'm guessing he's somebody's cousin and needed a job. Very unprofessional and hard to listen to.

Great information but

I found the narrator’s tone nasal and plodding. The content of the book is useful for college faculty.

this narrators voice is terrible

absolutely terrible. The book itself is excellent, but the narrator sounds like the professor from the Simpsons. Which makes it rather difficult to listen to a whole chapter at once.

Worst Audiobook Ever

The Contant of this book is terrific. With the exception of the emotional chapter, which, as a psychiatric person, I found flogged, the Contant is terrific. But I’m evaluating this book as an audiobook, and there is absolutely no way that you can listen to this, drowning on monotone Voice with anything other than utter pain. Please do not listen to this audiobook while you are driving because you will fall asleep. In fact, there are many things that are in the contents of this book that would make one beg to question how the author could possibly have allowed this narration. Clearly, the author has a good handle on ways to communicate information in education. However, the author has fallen short of finding ways to communicate the information in this book by the use of this narration. This narration can only be described as the worst GPS audio narration I’ve ever heard. If it is not GPS, this person has absolutely no business doing narration of anything at all. Frankly, I wouldn’t want to sit at dinner with this person because the voice is so annoying that I wouldn’t make it through the meal. It was painful and quite the struggle to make it through this contact. If the goal is that you recognize, the content is good, and you go from purchasing the audiobook to buying the book Giving the author to sales, I can see that as a possible win. However, if you just wanna read the book, I think you’ll get a lot more out of it. This audiobook was utterly painful to listen to.

Worst narrator ever!

This might be an interesting book on learning, but I will never know. I could not get past the nasal, droning voice of the narrator.

Needs a different narrator

I purchased this book soon could listen during my travel time and the content is fine but the narration is too distracting - the narrator has a very unnatural pattern of speaking and sounds like an announcer - it makes it very hard to stay focused on what the author is trying to communicate. Couldn’t make it past the second chapter.