Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed Back the Pace?
This article is untethered from the mammoth amounts of research that&#x27;s been done specifically on how people learn. The answer to this question doesn&#x27;t lie in anecdotes about various professors&#x27; &quot;philosophy&quot;, in fact that kind of approach is a huge barrier to actually improving the learning that occurs on college campuses. This is an opinion article, so I understand it&#x27;s not thorough reporting, but the author should familiarize herself with the literature.<p>A book like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Make-Stick-Science-Successful-Learning&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0674729013" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Make-Stick-Science-Successful-Learnin...</a> is accessible and provides a good survey of what we know about how the brain learns and remembers things, and how it relates to existing practices.