A part of the 'Pizza, Pedagogy… & Podcasts!' Series. A 1-hour synchronous hybrid workshop and open to JHU graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty, and staff.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

James Heckman, proponent of non-cognitive skills, states that, “The family is the major source of human inequality in American society.” Likewise, according to Paul Tough, author of How Children ...

An analysis of massive cognitive and neuroimaging databases indicated that more education was associated with better memory, larger intracranial volume, and slightly larger volumes of memory-sensitive ...