Elon Musk and some 1,800 other artificial intelligence experts may have signed a letter calling for a pause in A.I. research to develop better safeguards. But pause or no pause, it’s clear that A.I.

Students whose STEM courses are taught using active learning perform better than those taught with traditional lectures. That was the top-line finding of a widely cited 2014 meta-analysis, and it has ...

Have you ever wondered why kids can pick up languages so easily? Even if it’s one they don’t speak at home, and contains ...

Mr. Willingham is a psychologist at the University of Virginia and the author, most recently, of “Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning Is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy.” Picture your preschooler’s ...

We humans don’t learn as easily as we should. We learn better from direct experience than from others. And we learn better from failure than from success. Why is that? What exactly do we learn after ...

Recently, one of our expert contributors opined that the act of writing helps to make an IT leader stronger, arguing that writing is a leadership superpower. According to CIO.com, writing conquers ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. One of the best ways an organization can stay resilient, agile and, most significantly, ...

Easy come, easy go is more than a hook to one of Queen's greatest ballads. It's also how our brain seems to approach learning. When information is acquired without mental effort, it tends to disappear ...

Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. Call it the “learning paradox”: the more you struggle and even fail while you’re trying to master new ...