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jamesnotjim 's review for:
Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn
by Sanjay Sarma, Luke Yoquinto
It took me a while to get through this book because it's really quite a lot of books in one. It's partly a memoir of the primary author (Sanjay Sarma's) educational journey. It's partly a history of education and, in particular, of online education. It's partly a survey of some different approaches to education. It's partly a history of MIT-specific contributions to all of these things, and especially to the MIT's role in the teaching of robotics.
If you are a professional educator, particularly one involved in online education, it's certainly worth your attention. Though, like me, you might find yourself wishing it had been broken into more than one book. Sarma's journey is an interesting one and could have been fleshed out into a memoir. MIT's role in online education is important and could have been a book on its own. The educational history and competing philosophies of instruction are also worthy of book-length treatments.
That said, though the book is a lot of things, all of those things are valuable. So, while I found it a lot to get through, I also found a lot of value in it.
If you are a professional educator, particularly one involved in online education, it's certainly worth your attention. Though, like me, you might find yourself wishing it had been broken into more than one book. Sarma's journey is an interesting one and could have been fleshed out into a memoir. MIT's role in online education is important and could have been a book on its own. The educational history and competing philosophies of instruction are also worthy of book-length treatments.
That said, though the book is a lot of things, all of those things are valuable. So, while I found it a lot to get through, I also found a lot of value in it.