Many education researchers spend a lot of time studying how students learn, but if their findings don’t make their way into the classroom, they are only so useful. For example, researchers have known ...
When discussing learning transfer—the ability to apply previous knowledge, skills, and strategies to new contexts or situations—we should also be mindful of our learners’ cognitive load. Cognitive ...
Use some of the following techniques to incorporate Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (Mayer, 2005) into your videos. The use of on-screen text or symbols to highlight important information.
We live in a world where we can access information at the mere click of a button. We can ask Google or Suri for an answer and before we know it, we have it. We know that information changes rapidly.
At one time or another, we’ve all heard “experts” assert that children have different learning styles. Some children, for instance, may be visual learners, while others best absorb information by ...
Higher levels of education are tied to later ages of peak cognitive functioning, according to new research published today in the journal PLoS One. The study, led by UC Berkeley researchers, examined ...
Post written by François Grosjean. The linguistic and educational success of second language immersion education is now well established (see here). What has been less clear until recently was whether ...
Participants with higher education or professional occupations spent, on average, more years in a healthy cognitive state compared to those with lower socioeconomic positions, highlighting the role of ...
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