Did you know that 61.1% of smartphone users worldwide use their devices to watch videos? Indisputably, kittens and puppies are cute and brighten your day, but what if you could use the time it takes to watch a video to learn something new while on th ...
Want to Learn? Make It Fun With Gamification!
Sometimes, we stop doing something because we find it dull. It happens to all of us! Take learning a new language, for example. Study verb conjugations by heart? Nah, boring. But what if we made it fun with elements of gamification? Fun can be a stro ...
Help Your Brain Learn Better
The brain is one of the most complex parts of our body. Ongoing research on how it works has revealed some of its secrets, although scientists are working hard to discover more. We can apply some of that knowledge to the way we learn. Here are a ...
Learning and Sleep
Cast your mind back to your college days. Did you pull all-nighters, only to be too tired to perform well the next day? When we are young, we believe we can do without sleep. However, we need a good night’s sleep to enable our brains to function effe ...
The Adaptive Learning Model
Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi film Blade Runner starring Harrison Ford depicts a world where robots take over human life. The idea was a terrifying prospect for cinemagoers at the time. That dire prediction has not come to pass; however, bots and artifi ...
How Making Mistakes Can Help You Learn
Cast your mind back to your school days. The teacher calls on you to answer a question and your mind goes blank. You are afraid of making mistakes in front of your classmates and making a fool of yourself. Little did you know at the time that providi ...
What Is Visual Thinking?
If you are anything like me, you can remember people’s faces but cannot remember their names to save your life. Don’t worry, you are part of the 60-65% percent of the population who are visual thinkers. As a visual thinker, pictures and visualization ...
Ace Your Job Interview in English!
Your upcoming job interview has your stomach twisted in knots? It is understandable because you want to make a good first impression and get your dream job. Follow these tips to impress your future employer and ace your interview. Do some research o ...
Is Task-Based Learning Effective?
You probably remember those tedious language drills at school, where the whole class repeated the same sentence ad nauseam. Or when you parroted an assigned passage that you had learned by heart. The biggest problem with these teaching methods is tha ...
Microlearning Basics
Your company provides training courses that are very useful for your job, and you know that learning new skills will benefit your career. However, do you find yourself forgetting most of what you’ve learned not long after the lesson is finished? The ...