When I started out as a high school teacher in the early 2000s, I was using a lot of technology designed for connection. It was the advent of SmartBoards and podcasts, voicethreads and vlogging. Yet ...

Have you ever left a lecture or finished reading a chapter with pages of neatly written notes, only to realize later that you barely remember the material? For decades, note-taking has been hailed as ...

Despite a recurring stream of educational fads, lectures still dominate teaching approaches. In spite of such teaching reforms as "hands-on" learning, small group collaborations, project-based ...

The learning journey is a lifelong process that shapes our understanding of the world. It’s a path that leads to self-improvement, personal growth, and the development of new skills. This journey is ...

Nearly a century ago, psychologist B.F. Skinner pioneered a controversial school of thought, behaviorism, to explain human and animal behavior. Behaviorism directly inspired modern reinforcement ...

When universities and colleges nationwide announced that their classes were going remote as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, the Learning Assistant Program at the University of Colorado Boulder began ...

Just as speech-to-text technologies like Amazon Alexa or Google Home can answer your questions in the kitchen about the latest news and weather report, the same algorithms are now powering a new age ...

Sydney Goins cries when she goes on walks. The college senior lost her dining hall job at the University of Georgia after classes were moved online in March because of the coronavirus outbreak. She ...

State-dependent learning (SDL) is the phenomenon that behavior is learned better if your internal mental state is similar during practice and testing of the behavior. It is a powerful ...