Tag Archive for: Higher Education

Prof. Kapur is a Speaker at the SXSW EDU 2025 | March 3, 2025

Prof. Kapur is talking about about Productive Failure at the SXSW EDU 2025, Austin TX, alongside an amazing set of speakers Emily Calandrelli, Nadim Matta and Kara Bobroff. Join us!  

‘Productive Failure’ Book interview on New Delhi Television (NDTV) | October 28, 2024

Prof. Kapur had an interesting discussion with Anwiti Singh on New Dehli Television (NDTV) about his  'Productive Failure' book. Watch the full interview on "How to Turn Failures into Success".  

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.

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

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

NPR Episode: How to learn new things! 

Prof. Manu Kapur talks about the role of Productive Failure in NPR's episode on how to learn new things! | Find out more about the article on "Learning a new skill can be hard"!
Image (ETH Zürich / Alessandro Della Bella)

Various Articles on “Those who fail productively are all the wiser” | September 2021

"Practicing before learning theory is almost twice as efficient as being taught by an excellent teacher for a year" says Prof. Manu Kapur. He conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis along with Dr. Tanmay Sinha, in which they included 53 previously…

Prof. Manu Kapur will be a keynote speaker at SALTISE Conference | June 4, 2021

The Future Learning Initiative | One thing is clear. Future advances in learning cannot be achieved by learning scientists alone. True to the original intent of the learning sciences, advances in our understandings of learning as a complex phenomenon…

Prepare students ‘to fail’ so they can learn, report suggests

Manu's work on Productive Failure spotlighted in an article, published in The Times Higher Education (1st December 2016).