It started with the wonderful realization that I could bring a book with me everywhere.
Michelle Miller, PhD Posts
Much of the pontificating about costs in higher education claims that it’s become fundamentally unsustainable. There’s the famous likening of teaching in higher education to live string quartet performance – something that can’t be compressed for efficiency, done by fewer…
We talk a lot about making teaching and learning easier. What happens when it’s harder?
Posted in Academic Life, and Higher Education
One of the more useful concepts to come along from the literature on cognition and learning is this: desirable difficulty.
Can a textbook change your life?
Posted in Cognitive Psychology and Learning, Higher Education, Technology, and Trends and Change
One did for me, and now I wonder what’s next.
Neuroscience in translation: Why use it or lose it is a bad idea
Posted in Cognitive Psychology and Learning, Higher Education, and Ideas and Resources
Is there any truism about cognitive capacity that is more familiar than “use it or lose it?” Of all the things we could talk about in applications of neuroscience, this is one that shows up surprisingly often, even in the…