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: ...

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.

Get ready to bust common misconceptions about how learning works! Studies have shown mindsets and metacognition, or “learning how to learn,” has a meaningful impact on student outcomes. How can ...

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 ...

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 ...