Traditional educational practices are not always effective. Many students feel overwhelmed and tired of the commonly used teaching methods.

Vanessa Peters Hinton, Ph.D., is a senior learning sciences researcher at Digital Promise. Her research focuses on digital learning in K–12 and higher education. Imagine this scenario: An office at ...

Experiential learning has been on the rise in higher education as colleges and universities look to amplify so-called high-impact practices, such as service learning, problem and project-based ...

Today’s post is the third in a series on how teachers can structure lessons so that students see them as relevant to their lives. “Why do I need to wear a seatbelt? What style of seatbelt protects me ...

The Higher Learning Commission (UW’s accrediting body) offers this definition of assessment: “Effective assessment is best understood as a strategy for understanding, confirming, and improving student ...

Oregon State University’s Learning Innovation Center (LINC), a four-story classroom building, opened its doors in fall 2015. The shared campus classroom seats 2,300 students across 15 general-use ...

Districts have incorporated social-emotional-learning principles into programs and curricula for decades as an effort to teach students how to manage emotions, achieve goals, show empathy, and build ...

Learning a new language isn’t easy. It took me four years of high school French to be semi-comfortable ordering a croissant in a Parisian cafe. But, keeping a notebook while you’re learning a foreign ...