This post is by Kathleen Cushman. Her most recent book, with WKCD colleague Barbara Cervone, is Belonging and Becoming: The Power of Social and Emotional Learning in High Schools (Harvard Education ...

There are a lot of different reasons people plateau in their quest for mastery or excellence. Conditions might not be right; support structures might not be in place; the individual might not be ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Corporations are growing increasingly dissatisfied with their learning management systems, and many ...

Charlene Shang Miller’s passion for art goes back to her childhood in Chicago, when her parents would take her and her four siblings on frequent visits to museums. Miller, who began work this summer ...

Researchers have explained how infants learn by looking, and the crucial role these activities play in how infants gain knowledge. Their computer model of babies aged 6 weeks to one year shows how ...

The blackboard might look a little fuzzy from a distance, but before you chalk it up to poor vision, it might be time to take a closer look. Distance education has been around for centuries, ...

More and more businesses are looking for employees with skills in the emerging field of machine learning. Recruiting those employees, however, can be difficult, given how in-demand they are. LinkedIn ...

Aurora University is gearing up to replace its existing library with a new forward-looking “Learning Commons” designed to bring people together. Set to be located on Prairie Street in front of the ...

The introduction of virtual reality (VR) technology has changed the way employers train and improve the skills of their employees. The resulting experience is called immersive learning, as trainees ...

Something keeps happening more and more often these days: I’m the oldest person in any school building I enter. I don’t feel like the oldest. When colleagues address me as “ma’am,” it stings. Surely, ...

Self-driving cars, medical research, financial market predictions: The applications of machine learning technologies seem limitless. Data processing isn’t a small task: Countless human work hours are ...