College students are habituated to a classroom norm sociologists call civil attention: creating the appearance of paying attention (sitting still, looking awake, scribbling or typing) while ...

Because Promova works across smartphones and computers, you can keep your E-ink reader focused on the text while using a ...

When we are concentrating on and engaged in a task, the brain's task-positive network (TPN) is activated. This network, which includes the prefrontal regions and the intraparietal sulcus of the brain, ...

While it might be tempting to view “active learning” as another educational buzzword, a large body of research demonstrates that active and collaborative classrooms produce deeper and more ...

Have you ever given a lecture to a group of adult learners? If so, you may have noticed their eyes losing focus and phones appearing as you moved through your session. This is because the traditional ...

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When it comes to learning a language, the left side of the brain has traditionally been considered the hub of language processing. But new research shows the right brain plays a critical early role in ...

Neuroscience shows traditional teaching is not enough. Instead, an experiential approach can return learning to its natural ...

Students whose STEM courses are taught using active learning perform better than those taught with traditional lectures. That was the top-line finding of a widely cited 2014 meta-analysis, and it has ...

Language learning is often a daunting prospect. Many of us wish we had learned a language to a higher level at school. But ...