Since the COVID-19 pandemic spread to the U.S. in 2020, college leaders and policymakers have raised questions about the academic preparation of today’s students. College readiness metrics in math and ...

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ChatGPT Study Mode provides students with a Socratic interface and experience designed to foster active learning and idea exploration rather than just passively receiving answers. Traditional student ...

This academic master class could show you what to do when it's just you, your MacBook and a hefty workload. Photo: Cult of Mac Deals You’ve tried staring at your MacBook, but you still can’t grasp ...

The rise of large language models like ChatGPT has led to widespread concern that “everyone is cheating their way through college,” as a recent New York magazine article memorably put it. Now, OpenAI ...

Previous work has demonstrated that action video game training produces enhancements in a wide range of cognitive abilities. Here we evaluate a possible mechanism by which such breadth of enhancement ...

Despite rich behavioral evidence, it is unclear how the brain expands its behavior repertoire. By building theoretical models with a deep reinforcement learning algorithm, I show that the brain ...

Sooner or later, everyone fails at something. But does everyone learn from their failures? In fact, the evidence suggests that most people struggle to grow from mistakes and defeats. When researchers ...

Learning while snoozing sounds like a dream come true (pun intended), but it’s not all that far-fetched. Keep reading to get the details on the role sleep plays in learning. Sleep is the secret sauce, ...