Cathy Beck is the assistant superintendent in Summit County, CO. She is the author of “Easy and Effective Professional Development,” and “Leading ELL Students to Success: Strategies for Providing ...

‘Transfer of learning,’ a process which involves applying knowledge from one situation to another, allows students to connect school concepts to the world around them. In this animated explainer video ...

When discussing learning transfer—the ability to apply previous knowledge, skills, and strategies to new contexts or situations—we should also be mindful of our learners’ cognitive load. Cognitive ...

The goal of this article is to develop a new perspective on transfer of learning integrating cognition, emotion, and bodily experience. It is based on a case study with a 10-year-old girl as she ...

Mingai Li, received her B.Sc. degree and M.Sc. degree from Daqing Petroleum Institute, Heilongjiang, China, in 1987 and 1990 respectively, and Ph.D. degree from Beijing University of Technology, ...

Both humans and other animals are good at learning by inference, using information we do have to figure out things we cannot observe directly. New research from the Center for Mind and Brain at the ...