- Productive Failure is featured in a story on TimeForKids.com: Work Your Mind: Figuring something out on your own may be the best way to learn, published on April 25, 2012.
- Take a look at this Time.com story on Productive Failure: Why Floundering Is Good, published on April 25, 2012.
- Take a look at this Straits Times story on Productive Failure: Young kids learn better through play? So do teens: Study, published on June 28, 2013.
- Implicit Social Cognition is featured in a story on The Straits Times (Home, Page B1) on July 15, 2014.
- Dr Kapur’s article In the classrooms of Singapore, calculators are not crutches has been published on The Conversation on May 21, 2014.
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Productive Failure Book Release | October 1, 2024
We are excited to announce the worldwide release of Prof. Kapur's new book: Productive Failure.

Keynote at EdeX Symposium 2025 | September 22 & 23, 2025
Prof. Kapur was a keynote speaker at the Nanyang Technological University Singapore EdeX Symposium 2025, where he shared his research on Productive Failure, together with workshops and panels.
Watch the full talk on "Productive Failure for…

Chat on the «10% Happier with Dan Harris” Podcast
Prof. Kapur was talking about Productive Failure with Dan Harris on the "10% Happier" podcast. Additionally, they had a chat about some healthy ways to use AI.
The episode is titled "Success Through Failure" and can be found on YouTube.
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Tandem talk of Prof. Kapur and Prof. P. Dillenbourg (EPFL) at the Global Learning Conference 2025
Prof. Kapur and Prof. P. Dillenbourg talked about «Steering LLMs, Productive Failure, and collaborative learning» at the Global Learning Conference 2025 at Villars Institute.

Keynote at Teachers’ Conference and ExCEL Fest 2025 (TCEF2025) | June 3-5, 2025
What a big privilege it was to hold a keynote on Productive Failure at the TCEF 2025, a biennial signature event organised by the Ministry of Education, Singapore, from 3 to 5 June 2025. The conference is aimed at supporting teachers’ professional…

Prof. Kapur talked about his book with Shiv Puri | May 28, 2025
Prof. Kapur enjoyed an insightful conversation on his groundbreaking book Productive Failure in one of the «In conversation with Shiv» series with Shiv Puri.