Neurobiologists discovered that individual neurons can apply different plasticity rules in separate dendritic branches. This new understanding challenges prior assumptions of uniformity in synaptic ...

Aspiring teachers are unfamiliar with basic principles of learning science and should learn how to connect those principles to practice, according to a new report from Deans for Impact .

Anna Sfard, When the Rules of Discourse Change, but Nobody Tells You: Making Sense of Mathematics Learning from a Commognitive Standpoint, The Journal of the Learning Sciences, Vol. 16, No. 4 (2007), ...

Students will love the idea of being in charge of their learning for the most part, but they may not be ready to do it on their own. So you will need to scaffold the experience until they can do ...

Princeton graduate students play a key role in meeting the University’s historic commitment to undergraduate teaching. Keeping alive Woodrow Wilson’s ideal of student-centered instruction, graduate ...

A study has revealed that individual neurons use distinct rules across their dendritic compartments to strengthen synapses during learning, offering new insights into brain adaptability and ...

Lastly, flexibility and efficiency improve with online learning tools, allowing students to learn at their own pace and offering teachers digital tools to streamline tasks like grading, attendance ...

We acquire languages in a intuitive process that involves little effort; we learn them through the conscious assimilation of grammatical rules and usage.