Two University of Iowa engineers have won funding from the National Science Foundation to develop a theory that would improve ...

A blog by IDS alum and Chevening scholar Joydeep Sinha Roy, the Country Director of BRAC Tanzania, who studied at IDS.

When Shelly Bartosek talks about studying abroad, she isn’t describing trips—she’s describing transformation. As a business ...

ABSTRACT: Motivation is formed by a breadth of elements, including biological, psychological, social, cultural, and environmental influences, and is characterised as a key component of students’ ...

A rotating cylinder with its side cut away to expose the core, showing patches of purple, blue, green, yellow, and orange that are dense in the middle and more diffuse toward the edges. This rotating ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Discovering chemical reaction pathways using quantum mechanics is impractical for many ...

What does it really mean to prepare our students for a future we can’t fully see yet?This is a question that goes beyond curriculum, instruction, or strategy—it challenges school leaders to design ...

Learning results from what the student does and thinks and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing what the student does to learn. (Lovett et ...

Joint research led by Sosuke Ito of the University of Tokyo has shown that nonequilibrium thermodynamics, a branch of physics that deals with constantly changing systems, explains why optimal ...

ABSTRACT: Many institutions of higher learning have been, and in some cases continue to be, profoundly shaped by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The University of Namibia (UNAM) was not exempt ...

Our brains may work best when teetering on the edge of chaos. A new theory suggests that criticality a sweet spot between order and randomness is the secret to learning, memory, and adaptability. When ...