Habits are learned through rewarded practice. Some habits are completely unconscious, for example: checking your phone when you experience a moment of boredom. You may not have realized how much this ...

Roughly 1.2 billion people worldwide are currently learning a foreign language. If you are one of them, this article is for you. Whether you are learning to improve your job prospects, do better in ...

A lot has been published lately on “habits” -- how to create good ones and how to break bad ones. So, last week I asked: How can we help students develop good habits? Today, I’m lucky enough to have ...

If you don't know how to learn well, you're basically screwed. So say Peter Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel, authors of "Make It Stick: The Science Of Successful Learning." "We need to keep ...

I’m Scott Carlson, a senior writer at The Chronicle covering higher ed and where it’s going. This week, I tell you about a conversation I had with the authors of a recent book on the study and ...

Innovation is rightly described as a creative and often collaborative process. As a result, we usually talk about “making space” for innovation, rather than “enforcing rules for innovation.” Rigidity ...

The ability to text or live chat with an elite coach can deepen learning. Imagine you’re shopping for a printer at a big, warehouse-style store. Upon arriving at the electronics aisle, you discover ...

As a child, we are fascinated with the world. As a child, we are naturally curious about our environment. We want to touch, push, pull and poke things that are within our reach. All of our senses are ...

Building a lifelong love for learning in children is a subtle art that goes beyond formal education or pushing achievement. Child development and adult success studies show that the foundations for ...

For more than 90 years, the Core curriculum at the University of Chicago has formed the basis for undergraduate students’ academic journey through the College. Yet the Core’s transformative impact ...