Importantly, individual variability in curiosity-driven memory benefits for incidental material was supported by anticipatory ...

Teachers usually can’t use standardized tests to accelerate students’ learning. The tests are often too general and the results too slow in coming to help teachers make daily instructional decisions.

I was recently getting a much-needed haircut with a new stylist, and in our small talk, he asked me what I do for a living. I explained that I teach current and future teachers how people learn and do ...

The world of education developers is small. And in that world, Joshua Eyler is well-known, universally liked and highly respected. Judging his fine book How Humans Learn, Eyler’s influence now likely ...

Today’s workers are dealing with the reality that while AI might not necessarily come for their jobs, workers with AI skills will certainly be replacing workers without AI skills. Given the future ...

Learning models are changing throughout higher education, with a wave of remote, hybrid and blended classes sweeping through colleges and universities even as life returns to something more like ...

Sooner or later, everyone fails at something. But does everyone learn from their failures? In fact, the evidence suggests that most people struggle to grow from mistakes and defeats. When researchers ...

This study will update and extend How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (2000) by examining the research that has emerged across various disciplines that focus on the study of learning ...

The world is full of things to learn. Where to start? How to choose what to pay attention to? What motivates someone to seek new knowledge? The desire to learn is partly a preference for novelty: we ...