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Article in «Education Weeks» | September 6, 2024

Failure can be a student’s best teacher—but only if educators know how to use it. Find out more about the article on “What Teachers Get Wrong About ‘Productive Failure’—And How to Get it Right”.

Final Advisory Board Meeting of the Future Learning Initiative | October 27, 2023

The Future Learning Initiative (FLI) Advisory Board Meeting was a a big success. FLI project members provided brief reports and presentations of the various FLI projects, each presented in a 15 min. talk. Keynote speaker Prof. Martha W. Alibali, Prof. of Psychology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, talked about how learners discern mathematical structure and the roles […]

Article in «Edsurge» (online) | February 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. Proponents say the model improves student outcomes by encouraging more interaction among students and professors, and many studies have […]

Article in «THE Times Higher Education» | October 25, 2022

Professor Kapur and co-​authors John Hattie, Irina Grossman and Tanmay Sinha recognise that flipped learning is “here to stay” but call for administrators and professors to pay more attention to course design, rather than mode of teaching. Flipped learning benefits ‘easy to replicate in normal classroom

Article in «EduTopia» | September 16, 2022

Interview with Prof. Kapur on reframing our notion of failure, and letting kids stumble with purpose. Find out more about the article on «If You’re Not Failing, You’re Not Learning»