While it can be frustrating to fail, considerable research shows that frequently testing yourself as you learn, especially if you get something wrong, is an highly effective way to speed up the ...

The social side of work is in short supply these days. Post-pandemic, many organizations have turned to some form of a hybrid approach: employees splitting their time between remote work and commuting ...

1. Learn several things at a time. The process is called interleaving: studying related concepts or skills in parallel. Instead of focusing on one subject, one task, or one skill during a learning ...

Handwriting notes in class might seem like an anachronism as smartphones and other digital technology subsume every aspect of learning across schools and universities. But a steady stream of research ...

Easy come, easy go is more than a hook to one of Queen's greatest ballads. It's also how our brain seems to approach learning. When information is acquired without mental effort, it tends to disappear ...

A team of computer scientists has created a nimbler, more flexible type of machine learning model. The trick: It must periodically forget what it knows. And while this new approach won’t displace the ...