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Learning Science for Instructional Designers: From Cognition to Application is a wonderful synthesis of the…
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I attended my first Learning and the Brain in 2008; I believe the topic was…
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In Learning Without Borders: New Learning Pathways for all Students, Yong Zhao outlines an ongoing…
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Teachers often ask me: “how should my students take notes?” That question typically springs from…
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