While discoveries in the learning sciences hold tremendous potential to impact education, edtech entrepreneurs must study and appropriately apply them them in order for this impact to be realized.

Multimedia instructional content is more likely to create a meaningful learning experience if the content is developed with the following assumptions from cognitive science in mind: Working memory is ...

Research on infant thinking suggests that babies are more complex thinkers than was once believed. There is now evidence that, by the end of their first year, children are capable of logical ...

Exposure to ammonium nitrate, a component of fine particulate pollution from agricultural emissions, is associated with ...

you’ve experienced Cognitive Load Theory (CLT). How does CLT play out in the classroom? To understand that, we'll need to think first about memory and how we learn. Learning, remembering, and ...

LLMs are transforming learning by making knowledge accessible, personalized, and engaging—igniting curiosity, confidence, and ...

adaptation of cognitive skills by learning from errors, and conversion from one belief to another, incompatible belief. For each topic, Ohlsson summarizes past research, re-formulates the relevant ...

Research in cognitive science and psychology is generating new insights into how we learn. Below, educational consultant and writer David Didau explores some key theories about learning – as ...