“Personalized learning” is a term that people take quite personally—and that leads to a variety of interpretations about what it means. That’s a problem, says John Reyes, director of educational ...

The "zone of proximal development" is a concept introduced by a Russian psychologist and child development specialist named Lev Vygotsky. While the concept is usually applied to children and ...

ZPD is the gap between a learner’s independent abilities and what they can achieve with guidance from a more knowledgeable other (MKO). Table of Contents What Is The Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) ...

The COVID crisis throws into relief what happens when grief has—quite literally—nowhere to go. The evidence suggests that most people summon strengths that surpass their own expectations. The "zone of ...

This article reports on the ways in which one teacher led her special education students' cognitive development in their "zones of proximal development," with a specific focus on her interactions with ...

The STEM Zone project seeks to build institutional capacity for improving undergraduate STEM teaching and learning. It will support efforts to improve the teaching effectiveness of STEM faculty and to ...