In the spirit of Thinking, Fast and Slow, a groundbreaking look at the science of how we learn—and how we can use it to discover our true potential, as individuals and across society As the head of Open Learning at MIT, Sanjay Sarma has a daunting job description: to bring the MIT experience to the wider world. But if you’re going to undertake such an ambitious project, it behooves you first to ask: How exactly does learning work? What conditions are most conducive? Are our traditional classroom methods—lecture, homework, test, repeat—actually effective? And if not, what techniques are?