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These three simple strategies can allow you to train your brain to learn new skills—both inside and outside the classroom. Unfortunately, we tend to think about learning primarily as something done in ...

It’s clear from recent research that employees want learning opportunities for upskilling and reskilling in the workplace. According to a Glint Data report, the top factor that people look for in a ...

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School districts in every state now have the green light to establish competency-based education programs and models in their classrooms—but they have a lot of work to do on the operational side to ...

If you've ever had the feeling that your elementary school kids were 'smarter' than you -- or at least capable of picking up new information and skills faster -- a new study suggests you're absolutely ...

The increase in conversations about how to serve the overall needs of students, including their social and emotional needs, is one of the silver linings of education during the pandemic. While the ...

In the past two decades, impact evaluation has become an unavoidable topic in the social sector. Yet beyond the discourse on how to measure social impact lies a structural problem: We are not ...

Often, instructors want students to do more than know content that is increasingly complex. Other goals may refer to students’ interaction within the larger program or within the world. Fink (2013) ...

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 ...