Lauren Margulieux

Motivation This article explores how the brain processes feedback during learning, offering insights that complement more common educational theories about learning from feedback from cognitive, behaviorist, sociocultural, and constructivist approaches.

In the learning sciences, or any research endeavor, the research methods used are of paramount importance.

Motivation Is More Than Just Willpower When students struggle to stay engaged or persist through challenges, it’s easy to assume they lack interest or willpower (thanks to the Fundamental Attribution Error bias).

Learning Environments as Engines of Learning In the learning sciences, the learning environment is not just a place—it’s part of the learning process itself.

Cognition in Context Cognition—the mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge and understanding—is central in learning.

The learning sciences is an interdisciplinary field that studies how people learn and how to design effective learning environments.

In a previous post, I mentioned that I started researching wellness a few months into the pandemic when I noticed my physical and mental health declining.

Our response to stress evolved over hundreds of thousands of years during which stressors were much more dangerous.

Motivation Activating prior knowledge is a powerful instructional tool, but students do not always have relevant prior knowledge to activate.

Motivation To explain how semantic waves (based on the semantics dimension of Legitimation Code Theory) can help students to build upon prior knowledge, particularly everyday, practical knowledge, to develop new knowledge, particularly technical, discipli…