Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. What’s the key to effective learning? One intriguing body of research suggests a rather riddle-like answer: ...

Many instructors experience disappointment when their students’ exam scores don’t live up to expectations. How is it possible, we ask ourselves, that so many students failed to grasp the concepts we ...

Physicists have devised an algorithm that provides a mathematical framework for how learning works in lattices called mechanical neural networks. It's easy to think that machine learning is a ...

Learning is simple, right? It’s the process of moving information from out there — from a textbook, a company report, a musical score — to in here, inside our heads, and making that knowledge our own.

In education, as in psychology, clarity matters. Yet in everyday conversations about teaching and learning, terms like learning theory and pedagogy are often used interchangeably. Phrases such as “We ...

Erin Calipari comes from a basketball family. Her father, John Calipari, has coached college and professional basketball since 1998, leading six teams to the NCAA Final Four, and her brother coaches ...