‘Grasp’ and the Post-Pandemic University
‘Grasp’ and the Post-Pandemic UniversityGrasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn by Sanjay Sarma and Luke Yoquinto
Published in August of 2020.
Before we talk about why Grasp is an important contribution to the literature on learning science and higher education change, we need to talk about how this book is written.
Grasp is an absolute pleasure to read. Rarely are academic books written with such attention to style.
The quality of the writing in Grasp raises, at least for me, a couple of questions.
My first question is about the audience. Is Grasp intended for a specialized audience of academic educators and university leaders? Or is Grasp written for a non-specialized readership - say, anyone outside of academia interested in how the scientific understanding of learning is evolving?...