These four hands-on activities guide students to explore how their attention and memory function and how that impacts ...

What’s the key to effective learning? One intriguing body of research suggests a rather riddle-like answer: It’s not just what you know. It’s what you know about what you know. To put it in more ...

Paul A. Kirschner is Emeritus Professor of Educational Psychology at the Open University of the Netherlands as well as Guest Professor at the Thomas More University of Applied Science in Belgium. Carl ...

Let’s start with the bad news: Maine does not have great education statistics, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly a quarter of young children live in a childcare desert. Over a ...

There are no silver bullets in education but if there ever was a secret weapon educators can deploy to improve student learning, it’s metacognition. Metacognition is a meta-level awareness of ...

In education, as in psychology, clarity matters. Yet in everyday conversations about teaching and learning, terms like learning theory and pedagogy are often used interchangeably. Phrases such as “We ...

Most of us never got a formal lesson in how learning works, but we picked up messages about what counts as "smart," what's worth knowing, and how we're supposed to learn. But there's a catch to an ...

Over the past year, as generative AI tools have become common in college classrooms, much of the conversation has centered on academic integrity: how to detect AI use, how to redesign assignments and ...

Talking to yourself feels deeply human. Inner speech helps you plan, reflect, and solve problems without saying a word. New research suggests that this habit may also help machines learn more like you ...

A conversation with INSEAD’s Gianpiero Petriglieri on a key skill of modern leadership. In an age of rapidly changing technology, it’s more important than ever for organizations to effectively support ...