Reviews for New Science of Learning: Cognition, Computers and Collaboration in Education

The average rating for New Science of Learning: Cognition, Computers and Collaboration in Education based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-08-18 00:00:00 Mark Browne This book was chosen as the course book for a Service Science course that I am taking with Prof Eng Chew. This handbook consists of a collection of papers by academics who have contributed into the field of Service Science over the years. There's a great paper by Vargo and Lusch, the two professors who defined the term Service Dominant Logic, that summarizes their researches and ideas. Bitner et al provides a great explanation on how technology can be used to address Service Quality Gaps. I especially enjoyed reading Mojsilovic and Connors, Workforce Analytics for the Services Economy because I see how relevant this paper is to my current workplace and how it highlights everything that the organisation is doing wrong. This handbook contains lots of great ideas that takes a while to absorb. I'd love to revisit some of these papers again at a later date after I have more experience in applying value proposition and value co-creation.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-10-16 00:00:00 John Burgess This is a fascinating book about developments in genetics and evolution in the past twenty years. Sean Carroll is a leading researcher in the field; his lucid writing style and lively approach make this book a "must-read" for anybody interested in the subject. Plenty of illustrations and drawings help to bring the subject to life. There are several big mysteries in genetics; humans and primates share 99% of their genes, so why is their development so different? The answer lies in "genetic switches" that are encoded in DNA. But these switches have not yet been decoded; they are like the "dark matter" in galaxies--we know that it exists, but its nature is not yet been unraveled. The first half of the book focuses on how animals develop body parts. Every cell in one's body contains the identical DNA, so how does an embryo "know" which jcells are to develop into a heart, an arm, a finger, a brain, and on and on. Earlier books on evolution that I have read, simply left this as a mystery; hypotheses were described, but none articulated as a real answer. But, this book presents a very persuasive theory, and makes it quite understandable to the layman. In the second half of the book, Carroll conveys his sense of excitement, as molecular biologists began recently to talk with paleontologists. Remarkable progress in the past decade has shown fossils in a brand new light. Basically, evolution for the most part is not the development of new, mutated genes; evolution is the way in which old genes learn "new tricks". Embryology is shown to play a key role in understanding evolutionary development. For anyone interested in evolution or genetics, this is the book to read.