Students learn academic content because they need it to solve the problem in front of them. Math becomes a language for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writes about the future of finance and technology, follow for more. We live in a world where machines can understand speech, ...

Around the world, many teachers still believe longstanding—but long-debunked—myths about learning and cognition. A study published this month in the journal Trends in Neuroscience and Education finds ...

Learning is simple, right? It’s the process of moving information from out there — from a textbook, a company report, a musical score — to in here, inside our heads, and making that knowledge our own.

The world is full of things to learn. Where to start? How to choose what to pay attention to? What motivates someone to seek new knowledge? The desire to learn is partly a preference for novelty: we ...