Learning sciences is an interdisciplinary field focused on understanding and improving how people learn in real-world contexts. Drawing on cognitive psychology, neuroscience, education, computer ...

Technological advancements reshape the tools and methods used by teachers and learners, changing how individuals acquire new knowledge, skills, and behaviors. The potential of AI and foundation models ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn ...

A teacher's capability to improve students' scientific understanding is influenced by the school and district in which they work, the community in which the school is located, and the larger ...

In the Star Trek universe, the audience occasionally gets a glimpse inside schools on the planet Vulcan. Young children stand alone in pods surrounded by 360-degree digital screens. Adults wander ...

It is no secret that we are influenced by the preferences of others around us. What to watch on TV or even which factual statements to believe can be profoundly shaped by what other people watch or ...

This project will reposition the vacant Jacobs Center as the new Social Science and Global Affairs Hub, creating and interdisciplinary nexus of social sciences and global affairs learning/research at ...

Over the past two centuries, economists, policy makers, and researchers have aspired to “harden” social science. A lot of progress has been made: using randomized, controlled experiments; making ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...