Understanding the biological basis of consciousness or subjective experience is one of the most exciting and challenging projects of this century. For many reasons, an evolutionary approach to this ...

Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), and at Harvard Medical School have used mathematical modeling to show how individual cells appear capable of learning, a behavior once deemed ...

In today’s educational landscape, instruction has many forms. What’s known as traditional, face-to-face instruction is alive and well. But, like most fields, the field of education continuously ...

The remarkable ability of cells in the brain to store and process information has fascinated scientists for centuries. To accomplish this feat, neurons must have mechanisms to generate both transient ...

The transition to college comes with lots of novelty — living alone for the first time, exploring a new campus and meeting people from around the world. For students of color who come from diverse ...

Inside Higher Ed started “Inside Digital Learning” three years ago this month, with the goal of expanding our coverage of how technology is changing the nature of instruction and learning. We’ve built ...

During the months that Rosalind Crawford’s sons were out of school, on virtual learning for disciplinary reasons, she tried her best to keep them on track academically, but says they still fell behind ...

One of the biggest risks in learning ecosystems is scatter — consuming interesting but irrelevant content, or spending too much time researching for the right materials.