Richard Feynman once said, "If you're not having fun, you're not learning. There's a pleasure in finding things out." This sentiment captures the essence of learning as a joyful and engaging ...

Over at The Creativity Post, Annie Murphy Paul has an excellent piece called "Where's the Joy in Learning?", in which she mentions the research of Taina Rantala and Kaarina Määttä. The purpose of ...

When fifth-grade teacher Sharri Conklin first invited her students to lead a daily mindfulness moment, she didn’t expect it to spark a quiet revolution. What began as a single child asking to read a ...

Students in School of Extended Learning's Health and Wellness for Older Adults: Active Body, Active Mind class ( David Kafer photo) In classes, the best learners are often adult learners because they ...

We all know that thrilling feeling of learning something new — a new recipe, a new word in a foreign language, a new chord on the guitar. And yet, so many of us go through our workdays on autopilot ...

Summer is popularly imagined as bringing joy to all young people. Yet it is not an equal break or of the same quality for all students. Learning loss is the decline in academic skills and knowledge ...