Higher education institutions can better prepare students for an artificial intelligence–augmented workforce by shifting from ...

Public education abounds with excitement as schools, districts, and communities work together to rethink the ways in which teaching and learning can better suit the needs and abilities of today’s ...

The historic shift from print to digital offers transformational opportunity in education but efforts to “integrate technology” into our schools can leave untouched many historical ...

School models are, for the most part, outdated–and very overdue for replacement. When students reach high school, research shows that close to 66 percent of students are disengaged. But even students ...

In a famous essay about characters in fiction, the novelist Mary McCarthy wrote, “We are the hero of our own story.” I’m often reminded of this in my work, helping faculty to improve their teaching.

If you have been teaching for any length of time, you have probably heard the phrases “student-centered” pedagogy or “teacher-centered” pedagogy. The use of these strategies (positively or negatively) ...

Unschooling is a hotly debated topic on MindShift. This subset of home schooling, which doesn’t use any set curriculum and is instead directed by the child’s interests, is vastly different from ...

School models are, for the most part, outdated–and very overdue for replacement. When students reach high school, research shows that close to 66 percent of students are disengaged. But even students ...

Today’s customer-centered colleges and universities are not the learner and learning-centered universities we need. In the neoliberal universe of contemporary Americans higher education, it’s no ...

Beware of allowing online learning evangelists into your traditional, residential and research-intensive institution. Online learning people, it turns out, are hatching a secret plot. This secret evil ...

Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than passively receiving ...