The Second Congressional Commission on Education (EdCom 2) cited distilled Flemms (Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey) results showing that 21 percent of senior high school graduates ...

A recent UCLA study found no significant costs to watching online lecture videos at faster speeds. According to the study published Nov. 14, there was no difference in learning comprehension between ...

Today, Canadian artificial intelligence company Maluuba released impressive results for a type of machine learning focused on teaching computers to read like humans do. Companies like Google, Facebook ...

In good news for those who like racing through audiobooks at double speed, a new study from a team at UCLA has found learning and knowledge retention is not negatively effected when students watch ...

Walk into a modern classroom or open a student's laptop, and the shift is impossible to miss. Lecture recordings replace ...

Jim, a competent 15-year-old complained to us he had great trouble remembering what he read. Jim would read few pages, then his mind wandered elsewhere and he put down the book saying “Now that I read ...

Last week, Microsoft quietly released a public preview of “Learning Tools for OneNote.” This Microsoft hackathon winner is an add-in for OneNote designed to improve the reading and writing experience ...

For many teachers, edtech translates to visuals and video. But during the edWebinar “Voice Devices and Beyond in the Classroom,” the presenters made the case for using voice technology in schools to ...

Child Development, Vol. 87, No. 1, SPECIAL SECTION: Epigenetics, Child Behavior and Development: Unraveling the Gene-Environment Interaction (JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2016), pp. 184-193 (10 pages) Variability ...