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The Science of Learning: How the Brain Learns (for Teachers)
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The Science of Learning: How the Brain Learns (for Teachers)

Empower your students with science-backed learning strategies.
Created byAnna Moss
Last updated 3/2026
English
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What you'll learn

  • Understand how a student's brain learns
  • Identify multiple methods of active learning, both online and offline
  • Learn to create class activities that lead to long-term learning
  • Learn to create engaging homework activities that encourage active learning

Course content

1 section • 8 lectures • 1h 3m total length

  • The Science of Learning and Forgetting 18:35

    Explore how the brain forms long-term memories from short-term memory, using active recall and spacing out learning to avoid cramming, and explain the neural changes in synapses that strengthen learning.

  • Quiz 1
  • Strengthening Synapses Through Study5:34

    Learning physically changes the brain and strengthens memories through spaced repetition and active recall, while rereading, highlighting, and cramming are less effective.

  • Quiz 2
  • Introduction to Active Recall and Spaced Repetition: Formative Learning Game14:24

    Explore active recall and spaced repetition in the science of learning course through a formative learning game using Kahoot and quizzes, brain dumps, study guides, and personal goal setting.

  • Quiz 3
  • Active Recall: Evidence and Applying it to the Classroom8:24

    Explore active recall as a powerful study method that boosts long-term memory and deep understanding, outperforming rereading by using quick quizzes and fill-in-the-blank study guides.

  • Quiz 4
  • Spaced Repetition: Evidence and Game Demonstration10:34

    Explore spaced repetition and active recall with a quizzes game demonstration, including reflection, brain dumps, and study guides for asynchronous learning, homework, and kahoot-style practice.

  • Quiz 5
  • The Forgetting Curve6:54

    Spaced repetition strengthens long-term memory by timing reviews just before forgetting, using active recall and quizzes to flatten the forgetting curve.

  • Quiz 6
  • Brain Dumps and Study Guides7:51

    Use brain dumps and study guides to boost active recall and fight the forgetting curve. Transform dumps into study guides for homework and quick in-class quizzes.

  • Quiz 7
  • Thank you!1:06

    Discover the essential, hard-hitting insights for writing and reading from an experienced English instructor, who also covers brain-based learning and offers related courses.

Requirements

  • There are no requirements.

Description

Did you know that the human brain forgets around 50% of what it learns within 24 hours? Why does this happen, and what can we, as educators, do to help?

Join this class and discover how you can help all students have engaging, lasting learning experiences. You will learn principles of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and the learning sciences that apply to learners of any age. In addition to mastering the theory behind these educational strategies, you will learn five easy ways to use them in your classroom–or Zoom room or kitchen table, for all of you tutors and homeschool educators!

This class will teach you all the best strategies that I learned during my time at the University of Cambridge (MPhil Psychology & Education) and my many years as a middle and high school educator.

After completing this course, you will know the following:

- How students form long-term memories

- The neuroscience behind why students work hard to learn something one day but forget it the next

- How to implement the science-backed strategies of active recall and spaced repetition

- Which common study techniques have been found to be shockingly ineffective for long-term learning and what to do instead

- In-class activities and at-home assignments that strengthen long-term learning


Many thanks to my favorite education psychology writers and researchers whose ideas have inspired and appeared in this course: Ali Abdaal, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel, Peter C. Brown, Patrice Bain, and Pooja K. Agarwal.

Who this course is for:

  • Teachers, principals, professors, tutors, homeschoolers, parents, and any other educators who work with students in K-12 and/or college.

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