Neuroscience

Using Neuroscience to Advance Education

2024-07-03T15:09:29-04:002024/07/03|Articles, Catherine Meilleur, Learning, Neuroscience|

Since the impressive technological advances in brain imaging in the 1990s, neuroscience has enabled cognitive science to take a giant step forward. By observing the mechanisms of the brain in action, we can now confirm or refute certain hypotheses on which our understanding of learning and teaching has been built. Neuroscience has the power to bring us considerable progress in education without rejecting our entire pedagogical heritage or repressing the contribution of teachers in this great march forward—on the contrary.

[INFOGRAPHIC] 10 Tips on Creating Memorable Online Courses

2024-06-18T12:25:22-04:002024/06/18|Articles, Doru Lupeanu, Learning, Neuroscience, Online|

Designing online courses that successfully engage and educate learners requires a deep understanding of how the brain processes information. By incorporating insights from neuroscience, we can create courses that significantly improve retention, understanding, and application of knowledge. Below, we offer a short list of tips based on neuroscience principles to help you develop memorable online courses.

How to stimulate engagement in elearning

2024-06-06T16:17:44-04:002024/06/06|Articles, Catherine Meilleur, Learning, Neuroscience|

Whatever the learning mode, stimulating and sustaining engagement is essential, but in elearning, this factor needs special attention since learners who find themselves alone in front of their screen are more at risk of feeling left to their own devices and becoming demotivated. Drawing on neuroscientific knowledge, here are a few principles and strategies to help learners stay fully engaged from start to finish.

The Crucial Role of Emotions and “Skilled” Intuitions in Learning

2024-05-22T16:21:35-04:002024/05/22|Articles, Catherine Meilleur, Neuroscience|

Recent discoveries in neuroscience are prompting us to rethink some of our previous ideas about learning. Such is the case with the role of emotions in cognition and learning and their interrelationship with rational thought. Not only can emotions help or hinder learning, but they are also crucial to the development of "skilled" or "academic" intuitions.

5 Surprising Facts About Our Cognitive Processes

2024-03-06T15:29:27-05:002024/03/06|Articles, Catherine Meilleur, Learning, Neuroscience|

Are you familiar with the cognitive processes of attention, working memory, inhibition, and metacognition? If you already have an idea of what they do and how they work, you may not know what neuroscience has discovered about them in recent years. To satisfy your curiosity and enhance your learning, here are five surprising and useful facts about some of our cognitive processes.

Digital Learning from the Perspective of Affective and Social Neuroscience

2024-02-22T14:35:21-05:002024/02/22|Articles, Catherine Meilleur, Learning, Neuroscience, Online|

You're alone in front of your computer, in the middle of an online learning session, and it doesn't involve any human interaction, either with a teacher or with other learners. Are you likely to interact with your computer as if you were social partners, as you would with your peers in a traditional classroom? In light of the latest findings in social and emotional neuroscience, it seems quite plausible. Not only is this discovery surprising and interesting in terms of what it tells us about human behaviour, but it also offers us a new angle from which to explore and improve the digital learning experience.

3 Tips on How to Maintain Motivation While Studying

2024-02-01T16:33:25-05:002024/02/01|Articles, Doru Lupeanu, Learning, Neuroscience|

Maintaining high levels of motivation during study sessions is often a struggle; however, backed up by neuroscience, a few study tips could provide a helpful hand. These approaches are grounded in a deep comprehension of brain function, utilizing this understanding to enhance both learning effectiveness and the drive to continue studying.

5 Surprising Facts About Attention

2024-01-27T12:47:13-05:002024/01/26|Articles, Catherine Meilleur, Learning, Neuroscience|

Necessary for learning, our attention span is also essential for accomplishing our everyday tasks. To preserve and cultivate this precious faculty, which is particularly vulnerable in the digital age, it's essential to understand better its mechanisms to identify the factors we can influence and those we'd better let go of. Here are five surprising facts about attention to help you understand it better!

Five Teaching Strategies Backed Up by Neuroscience

2023-05-24T15:08:18-04:002023/05/24|Articles, Doru Lupeanu, Learning, Neuroscience|

Neuroscience has made remarkable advances in unravelling the mysteries of the human brain. As our understanding of how the brain functions expands, so does our ability to apply this knowledge to various fields, particularly education. Instructors can create an environment that maximizes engagement and retention by aligning teaching strategies with the brain's natural processes. Here are five teaching strategies backed by neuroscience that can enhance learning experiences.

[VIDEO] 3 Mistakes to Avoid While Studying

2023-05-03T11:48:15-04:002023/05/03|Articles, Learning, Neuroscience|

Knowing more about how a learning brain works allows us to re-evaluate our approaches to teaching and studying. As we know, studying is just as important, if not more so, than attending classes. However, thanks to neuroscience, we now know that not all study strategies are equal and that some are counterproductive, even though they have been used for generations. 

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