Interview with Andrew Horsfield | October 2023
Prof. Kapur was interviewed on Andrew Horsfield‘s podcast “The Messy Middle”. Episode #47 – Productive Failure
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The final Advisory Board Meeting of the Future Learning Initiative
October 27, 2023 The Future Learning Initiative (FLI) Advisory Board Meeting was a a big success. FLI project members provided brief reports and presentations of the various FLI projects, each presented in a 15 min. talk. Keynote speaker Prof. Martha W. Alibali, Prof. of Psychology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, talked about how learners discern mathematical structure […]
Talk at TEDxHSG, University of St. Gallen | September 16, 2023
Prof. Kapur talked about failure as a means of learning at TEDxHSG: Ideas for Exploring the Future of Learning.
Productive Failure featured on «THE Times Higher Education» | May 4, 2023
Advice to help faculty and staff reframe and harness failure as a useful aid to learning and development. Read the full article on How to Fail Well.
Article in «Edsurge (online) | February 16, 2023
Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. Proponents say the model improves student outcomes by encouraging more interaction among students and professors, and many studies have […]
Prof. Kapur was a keynote speaker at the «17. Hochschulevent» | November 16, 2022
Prof. Dr. Manu Kapur spoke about the «Future of Higher Education» at the 17. Hochschulevent at the Kongresshaus Zurich. Find out more about the program here.
Article in «THE Times Higher Education» | October 25, 2022
Professor Kapur and co-authors John Hattie, Irina Grossman and Tanmay Sinha recognise that flipped learning is “here to stay” but call for administrators and professors to pay more attention to course design, rather than mode of teaching. Flipped learning benefits ‘easy to replicate in normal classroom
Article in «EduTopia» | September 16, 2022
Interview with Prof. Kapur on reframing our notion of failure, and letting kids stumble with purpose. Find out more about the article on «If You’re Not Failing, You’re Not Learning»
Article in «Tagesanzeiger» | September 15, 2022
Even first graders are afraid of math. It doesn’t have to be that way. Prof. Manu Kapur explains why failure can be seen as an opportunity. Find out more about the article on «Why Math doesn’t necessarily need to be a frightening subject » (Article in German and readable with “Tagesanzeiger” subscription only)
Article in «The New York Times» | April 5, 2022
Several common educational strategies lean into the idea that, in the classroom, challenge is something to embrace. Learning the Right Way to Struggle
