News tagged with active learning

'Flipped classroom' teaching model gains an online community

Researchers at Harvard University have launched the Peer Instruction (PI) Network, a new global social network for users of interactive teaching methods.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Research reveals power of the subconscious in human fear

The human subconscious has a bigger impact than previously thought on how we respond to danger, according to research led by the University of Exeter. Published today, the study shows that our primitive response to fear can ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Neuroscientists boost memory using genetics and a new memory-enhancing drug

When the activity of a molecule that is normally elevated during viral infections is inhibited in the brain, mice learn and remember better, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine reported in a recent article in the journal ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Muscling toward a longer life: Genetic aging pathway identified in flies

Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have identified a set of genes that act in muscles to modulate aging and resistance to stress in fruit flies.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Competition between brain cells spurs memory circuit development

Scientists at the University of Michigan Health System have for the first time demonstrated how memory circuits in the brain refine themselves in a living organism through two distinct types of competition between cells.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Home learning experiences boost low-income kids' school readiness

Home learning experiences that are consistently supportive in the early years may boost low-income children's readiness for school. That's the finding of a new longitudinal study that appears in the journal Child Development.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Revamped college science course improves student performance -- in spite of cuts

Students overall performed better – and educationally disadvantaged students generally made even greater strides than everyone else – in an introductory biology course at a university where recent budget woes doubled ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Making temporary changes to brain could speed up learning, study reports

In a breakthrough that may aid treatment of learning impairments, strokes, tinnitus and chronic pain, UT Dallas researchers have found that brain nerve stimulation accelerates learning in laboratory tests.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researcher gives 'F' to multiculturalism education

Multicultural education in classrooms has failed to produce a deeper understanding across cultures, according to a Concordia University researcher. Education professor Adeela Arshad-Ayaz blames teacher training for failing ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 28, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Discovery gives insight into brain 'replay' process

The hippocampus, a part of the brain essential for memory, has long been known to "replay" recently experienced events. Previously, replay was believed to be a simple process of reviewing recent experiences in order to help ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 11, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Babies' brains tuned to sharing attention with others

Children as young as five months old will follow the gaze of an adult towards an object and engage in joint attention, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council. The findings, published ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 27, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scans show learning 'sculpts' the brain's connections

Spontaneous brain activity formerly thought to be "white noise" measurably changes after a person learns a new task, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Chieti, Italy, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

New findings about brain proteins suggest possible way to fight Alzheimer's

The action of a small protein that is a major villain in Alzheimer's disease can be counterbalanced with another brain protein, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found in an animal study.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A window into the brain: Researchers use MRI to track memories

When we absorb new information, the human brain reshapes itself to store this newfound knowledge. But where exactly is the new knowledge kept, and how does that capacity to adapt reflect our risk for Alzheimer's disease and ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Singapore nanotechnology combats fatal brain infections

Doctors may get a new arsenal for meningitis treatment and the war on drug-resistant bacteria and fungal infections with novel peptide nanoparticles developed by scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1