Each year large numbers of college students drop plans to become engineers or scientists because of poor performance in calculus. A new ‘active learning’ approach could help turn things around.
E-learning is important for Africa, but critics have their doubts.
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African board games are learning spaces for players to develop cognitive and non-cognitive skills given the mechanics or rules embedded in these games.
With studies from the past year exploring the relationship between smartphone use and mental health, sleep, learning and romance, a more nuanced portrait of the device has emerged.
Reading fiction can make you happier, nicer towards others and better focused in your activities.
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To counter the unbalanced effects of the digital age, reading literature is the key.
It’s exam time. Research suggests that while some students will be pleasantly surprised by how they did on exams, a larger group will falsely believe they did much better on their exams than they did.
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Research shows that many students are excessively optimistic about course grades. Those with a stronger sense of personal control are also less likely to receive the grades they expect.
As 90-year-old Thumekile Mthiyane proves, you’re never too old to learn or try new things.
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It’s common knowledge that children are voracious learners but the famous cliche suggests that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. This simply isn’t true.
How can computers learn to teach themselves new skills?
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Learning another language is more than just a boost to your CV. It makes you smarter, more decisive and even better at English.
For many students, the experience of teacher-led feedback is underwhelming or negative, and they are effectively left to their own devices.
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Despite heavy investment by universities, student experience of feedback higher education continues to be less than desirable, especially for at-risk students.
Pavlov’s drooling dogs hold the key to understanding many of our most important emotional experiences – as well as the overt actions we take to adapt to a world fraught with daunting challenges.
After 10 years of minimal breakthroughs, NAPLAN doesn’t seem to be going anywhere but online.
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NAPLAN is great at tracking changes over time and between demographics, but not so great at measuring what factors effect change, engagement or creativity.
Research shows that when parents engage in simple science projects with their kids at home, it boosts their learning in school.
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From collecting bugs to using math apps, there are many ways parents can engage in STEM activities with their kids to support their learning.
Teachers need to use their professional understanding and practical reasoning to assess the value of the proposed strategies and when, how and why they should be incorporated into their teaching.
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It’s not enough to base teaching and learning policy on big data analysis, evidence needs to be rich, persuasive and justifiable and provide practical support to develop teaching approaches.
Khanya College’s curriculum was quite different from the one taught at other universities of the time. Its students studied oral African literature and history alongside Western literature.
Digital textbooks might be less cumbersome. But a new series of studies finds that reading from screens can hamper our ability to process and retain information.
Deputy Associate Dean (Academic), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, School of Education, The University of Queensland