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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

When I finished my master’s degree in cognitive science back in 2020, I had no idea I would pivot careers and be working as a college counsellor at an international school three years later. Nor did I ...