Dr. Veronica Yan is a scientist focusing on enhancing and developing effective strategies for classroom, online, work and life-long learning. Her research aims to answer, ‘What are the most effective and efficient ways to optimize learning?’ and ‘How do we motivate people to learn?’
Dr. Yan is skilled in designing rigorous behavioral experiments, data analytics, and statistical analyses. She is an excellent communicator and translator of scientific research. She has given numerous workshops and invited talks for teachers, students, and organizations about effective learning strategies (and why we suffer illusions of learning, and how to avoid them), and has worked as a consultant for a number of educational technology companies.
Specialties: Learning, Educational Technology, Memory, Science Education, Higher Education, Educational Statistics, Probability & Statistics, Foreign Language Learning, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Educational Psychology, Mathematics Education
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