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Science of Learning 101: Why Learning Should Be Hard

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

One of the things I have learned from my study of learning science research is that using intuition to select the best learning solutions frequently fails. For example, learning styles appear very reasonable. Why wouldn’t teaching people in the manner that they prefer work best? But research shows no correlation between how people like to be taught and what works best for good retention and use of knowledge. (And in many cases, what they like is the opposite of what works best, which I&rsq

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