Education & Learning · The Science of Learning
A topic within The Science of Learning, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Education & Learning.
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Learning How to Learn
Barbara Oakley (TEDx Talks) · 2014
Argues that understanding requires alternating between focused and diffuse modes of attention, and that the feeling of fluency while re-reading is a…
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How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School
Bransford, Brown & Cocking · 2000
Synthesises decades of learning-science research into a single account of how understanding, transfer and expertise actually form, aimed at…
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Barbara Oakley (TEDx Talks)
Argues that understanding requires alternating between focused and diffuse modes of attention, and that the feeling of fluency while re-reading is a poor signal of having learnt anything.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Bransford, Brown & Cocking
Synthesises decades of learning-science research into a single account of how understanding, transfer and expertise actually form, aimed at redesigning how schools teach.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Dunlosky et al.
Ranks ten common study techniques by the quality of evidence behind them, finding practice testing and distributed practice are strongly supported while highlighting and rereading, the techniques students prefer, are not.
55 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026