Workshops & Videos

Speaking Engagements and Workshops

Example Workshops & Talks

  • Identities and Mindsets that Motivate Student Learning
  • The Science of Successful Learning
  • A Toolkit for Building Better Learners
  • Forgetting What We Know: Re-conceiving Performance Support as Performance Learning
  • Tutoring to Make Learning Stick
  • The Peculiarities of Optimizing Memory: Online and Hybrid Course Development
  • You Have to Forget to Learn, and other Counter-intuitive Advice

Audiences have included students, middle school and high school teachers, college professors, non-profit education organizations, and researchers. They have ranged from online to in-person, from 60 mins to full day workshops.

For inquiries about various professional development workshops for instructors and students, please contact Veronica Yan, veronicayan[at]austin.utexas.edu.


Empowering Learning: Motivation, Metacognition & Mindsets

Webinar with Quizizz May 2023
(67 mins)


Sequencing Learning of Confusable Concepts: The What, When, Why, How, for Whom?

National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology Conference 2023
(36 mins)


Exam Study Expert Podcast: Interleaving & Desirable Difficulties

Visit: https://examstudyexpert.com/Veronica
(38 mins)


A Toolkit for Building Better Learners

EdCog Symposium 2018
(1 hr)


Structuring Teaching for Long-Term Learning

Dell Medical School Grand Rounds 2018
(50 mins)

The Science of Successful Learning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5dG_R5nikQ&feature=emb_title
Pearson Learning Makes Us Webinar Series 2016
(37 mins)

The Surprising Dynamics Behind How We Learn: Implications for Performance Support

FocusOn Learning Conference & Expo, Ontuitive Lightning Round 2016
(9 mins)

From Struggling to Learn to Learning to Struggle

UCLA Dissertation Launchpad Showcase 2014
(10 mins)

Other links:
McMaster EdCog Symposium 2018
Pearson Mastering Conferences Keynote 2013