Benjamin Keep, PhD, JD

5 Things Students Should Know About Learning

A Simple Way to Learn Complex Skills

You can learn WAY more from Youtube videos

The Skill of Learning from Lectures

The Essentials of Problem Solving

The Experiment That Teaches People How To Learn

40 Hours to Learn Mental Math | The riveting conclusion?

Youtubers tested the generation effect. Did it work?

What is Actually Wrong with Rote Learning?

Two Reasons NOT to Copy Memory Athletes

How to learn from a book (maybe) | note-taking, visualizations, spacing | history example

Why Can't People Solve These Simple Problems?

Active Control vs Passive Control in Randomized Controlled Trials | What's the Difference?

Learn More From Every Paragraph | Active Reading Example

What makes something memorable?

Teach Your Kid Basic Math

The Knowledge That Underlies Everything | Tacit Knowledge

Learning scientist learns how to cook

How to Use Free Recall to Learn More Effectively

Online Learning Can Be Awesome. Here's How.

This Simple Method Helps You Learn More from Podcasts (and Audiobooks!)

Study Less, Study Smart(er) - Extending Marty Lobdell's Study Advice

What makes people great chess players? Cognitive scientist answers.

A Simple Study Tip: Stop Highlighting

7 Tips For Learning Anything On Your Own

Forgetting doesn't work like you think.

How visualizations help you learn (and how to use them)

The Surprising Truth About Note-taking During Lectures

How Bad Ideas About Learning Spread | 5 Examples

What Sherlock Holmes Got Wrong | Deduction, Induction, and Abduction

How I got tricked by this one weird trick - eating, the Delbeouf illusion, and meta-analyses

What does good learning FEEL like?

The Most Common Obstacle to Effective Studying

3 Simple Lessons in Learning and Attention | Cognitive Load, External Focus, Distraction, etc.

Active Processing vs Active Learning | What's the difference?

Why THIS is the best way to learn to ride a bike. | Intro to instructional scaffolding

Learning Beyond Facts | Conceptual Knowledge, Procedural Knowledge, and More

What no one tells you about learning faster.

I Learned Mental Math In 40 Hours

5 Things Students Should Know About Learning

3 Forgotten Studying Secrets from a 1979 Memory Expert

What is intuition? And where does it come from?

The Five Biggest Myths About Learning

How to do free recall (AKA active recall) - Language learning demonstration

The best brain training app is NOT the one you're thinking of.

What Speed Readers Won't Tell You

The thing that kills creativity | Psychology, insight, and problem solving.

Practice More Efficiently | Deliberate Practice & Skill Improvement

What People Get Wrong About Deliberate Practice

How to prepare for a final exam | High school and college

The true story of the search for planet Vulcan. And what it says about science.