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 ...

A valuable pedagogical process is the concept and application of explicit teaching, chunking, and sequence learning.

In the last two decades, cognitive science has made remarkable progress in unraveling the mysteries of how we learn, uncovering numerous approaches to optimize and enrich the learning experience.

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If you focus on connectivity, metadata and personalization, you can set up an effective cognitive search system and then use machine learning to improve it. With all the hype around artificial ...

Mayfield’s four-week pilot class brings financial education into schools through its Cognitive-as-a-Service (CaaS) model. Combining classroom learning with digital tools, the program teaches budgeting ...

Meditation and foreign language training does not boost cognitive function in cognitively healthy older adults, a new study suggests. The findings are similar to results from another study published ...

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An encouraging new study suggests we may hit our "functional capacity" later in life than previously believed.