College students are habituated to a classroom norm sociologists call civil attention: creating the appearance of paying attention (sitting still, looking awake, scribbling or typing) while ...

A New York exhibition explores the consequences of nuclear weapons through art with an installation by Japanese American ...

Calls for active learning have been persuasive, but for many faculty members, abandoning lecture feels unrealistic, even ...

As part of a learning team, a reflective practitioner is one who engages in two separate but intertwined reflective processes: reflection-in-action concerning the individual responses to shaping the ...

Experiential learning has been on the rise in higher education as colleges and universities look to amplify so-called high-impact practices, such as service learning, problem and project-based ...

Medical training makes self-examination a core virtue. But for many physicians, a habit meant to promote growth can quietly ...

Keep your "nose to the grindstone" is the advice we often tell young people is an essential ingredient of learning difficult tasks. A joke captures the matter with the old bromide for success, "Keep ...

Talking about failed conservation efforts does not happen often enough in ways that promote shared learning within organizations. We often learn more from failures than from successes, a fact ...

Adams County’s public library system, Anythink Libraries, announces the upcoming opening of the Anythink Nature Library, the ...

Amid growing pressures on health systems, Josje Kok and colleagues argue that healthcare regulation must evolve beyond ...