Richard Mayer: Why Some Educational Videos Teach Better Than Others
A polished video can still be difficult to learn from. Richard Mayer’s research helps explain how words, images, pacing, and practice affect understanding.
Category: Educators And Innovators
Hermann Ebbinghaus: The Research Behind the Forgetting Curve
Ebbinghaus made forgetting measurable. Explore his methods, the meaning of savings, and what the forgetting curve can realistically tell learners.
John Dunlosky: Which Study Techniques Actually Help Students Learn?
John Dunlosky and colleagues compared common study techniques. Learn how retrieval, spacing, feedback, and realistic self-checks can improve the way students organize learning.
Educational Researchers Who Changed What We Know About Learning
Educational researchers test what learners remember, understand, and can apply. Explore Ebbinghaus, Dunlosky, Mayer, and the careful interpretation that connects evidence with teaching.
Rita Pierson: Why Every Child Needs a Champion
Rita Pierson’s message about championing children becomes practical through respect, clear expectations, useful feedback, and reliable school support—not individual heroics.
Sir Ken Robinson: Why His Message About Creativity Still Resonates
Ken Robinson’s creativity message asks schools to recognize more than a narrow range of achievement. Explore what that means for knowledge, mistakes, assessment, and practical teaching.
Sal Khan: How Khan Academy Reimagined Free Education
Sal Khan helped make explanations and practice available beyond classroom schedules. Explore Khan Academy’s origins, mastery approach, and the support that meaningful access still requires.
Modern Teaching Icons: The People Changing How We Learn
Modern teaching influence takes many forms. Explore how Sal Khan, Sir Ken Robinson, Rita Pierson, and less visible educators shape access, creativity, and classroom relationships.
John Dewey: Why Learning by Doing Changed Education
John Dewey’s learning by doing requires more than activity. Discover how purposeful problems, reflection, knowledge, and shared inquiry can turn experience into understanding.
Anne Sullivan: How She Taught Helen Keller to Communicate
Anne Sullivan’s teaching connected touch, experience, and language. Explore the water-pump breakthrough, the years of learning that followed, and Helen Keller’s active role.
Maria Montessori: How Her Teaching Method Changed Childhood Education
Discover why Montessori classrooms combine purposeful materials, careful observation, and freedom within limits—and what those choices mean for children’s learning.
Great Educators in History: The People Who Changed How We Learn
Explore how influential educators changed access, classroom relationships, independence, and learning through experience—and how to judge their legacies thoughtfully.