Effective learning isn't just about finding the easiest path—it's about the right kind of challenge. Two prominent theories—Desirable Difficulties (DDF) and Cognitive Load Theory (CLT)—offer valuable ...

In earlier parenting days, my family often passed car-ride time by playing One-Word Story. Each passenger sequentially contributed a single word to an evolving story. While the Pulitzer committee has ...

GenAI may be accelerating a developmental transition in how learners conceptualize programming itself.

Two recent collaborations between mathematicians and DeepMind demonstrate the potential of machine learning to help researchers generate new mathematical conjectures. Mathematicians often work ...

Work you complete in the non-credit experience will transfer to the for-credit experience when you upgrade and pay tuition. See How It Works for details. A previous version of Machine Learning: Theory ...

As marketing director of Attensi, Anthony Wong helps people learn faster and better by making learning more fun and fruitful. Do you know where you were on June 26, 1997? Probably not. Unbeknownst to ...

Motivation theory has evolved over time as limitations of each new theory have become salient, and new theories are proposed to improve upon the old ones. Since each theory makes sense on its own, it ...

While students need to do the work themselves, they will only do so if they understand the value of course tasks and believe they can succeed at them.

With IRT, we are holding our curriculum to the same psychometric standards used by major testing institutions, such as ...