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In this video, Dr. Sean Kang (Dartmouth College) talks about how the timing of your study sessions has a huge impact on learning. When should you revisit study material? How should you schedule your review sessions? Watch this video to find out more.
Sean Kang is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Dartmouth College. He completed a Ph.D. at Washington University in St. Louis and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on human learning and memory, often with an explicit consideration for how the findings can be applied to enhance education, and includes topics such as test-enhanced learning, spaced/interleaved practice, metacognition, and the role of errors in learning.
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In 2015, Cameron Broumand, an entrepreneur and father of three living in Los Angeles, stumbled upon a media article on the science of learning. After reading the piece, he realized that the valuable research findings in cognitive psychology and the learning sciences were almost entirely unknown to the public and, more surprisingly, to teachers. How could this be?! Broumand decided to find out, so he called Dr. Robert Bjork, a distinguished research professor at UCLA and one of the world’s leading experts in human learning and memory. After an insightful conversation with Dr. Bjork about the disconnect between research and practice, Broumand recognized an opportunity to improve our educational system. Shortly thereafter, he—along with Clement Mok, an award-winning designer and digital pioneer—founded the company, Lasting Learning. The goal of the company? To provide information to the public about how the science of learning can help transform and improve the way people teach and learn. Broumand asked learning scientists, Dr. Nick Soderstrom and Saskia Giebl, M.Sc. (both of whom were in Bjork’s lab at the time), to join the team. They happily agreed and, with the help of Carri O’Neill, have been giving talks, workshops, and webinars around the country ever since. The UCLA-Lasting Learning team has had the privilege to talk with thousands of teachers, coaches, parents, students, and athletes about how they can leverage the science of learning to enhance their educational practices. We look forward to talking with many more!
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