The Productive Failure Book Release is coming up | October 1st, 2024

We are excited to announce the worldwide release of Prof. Kapur's new book: Productive Failure. 

Article in «Education Weeks» | October 25, 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".

Interview with Prof. Kapur on "BOLD"'s digital platform | September 12, 2024

Deep learning requires effort and can be frustrating. Prof. Kapur explains that we may feel that learning should be easy and fun, but deep learning has to be effortful. Watch the video on "Why learning shouldn't always be easy".

Prof. Kapur was a Keynote Speaker at EDULEARN24 Conference | July 1-3, 2024

Prof. Dr. Manu Kapur spoke about the «When and How Flipped Learning is Effective» at the 16th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies in Palma. Find out more about the keynote here.

Interview with Andrew Horsfield | October 2023

Prof. Kapur was interviewed on Andrew Horsfield's podcast "The Messy Middle". Episode #47 - Productive Failure

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,…

Talk at TEDxHSG, University of St. Gallen | September 16, 2023

Prof. Kapur talked about failure as a means of learning at TEDxHSG: Ideas for Exploring the Future of Learning.

Productive Failure featured on «THE Times Higher Education» | May 4, 2023

Advice to help faculty and staff reframe and harness failure as a useful aid to learning and development. Read the full article on How to Fail Well.

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…

Prof. Kapur was a keynote speaker at the «17. Hochschulevent» | November 16, 2022

Prof. Dr. Manu Kapur spoke about the «Future of Higher Education» at the 17. Hochschulevent at the Kongresshaus Zurich. Find out more about the program here.

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…

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»