Have you ever had to remember a phone number long enough to scribble it down? It probably wasn’t too hard, was it? The type of memory that we use for those types of tasks is often called working memory. It is a different beast from long-term retention—and one that we have to be wary of if we are serious about learning. (more…)
Brainscape wasn’t always a synchronous multi-user web and mobile learning application. It actually began as a simple Excel macro for learning French words and verb conjugations, which I developed to teach myself French while living in Martinique several years ago. Only by recruiting a strong team, testing a series of prototypes, and acquiring a solid body of supporting research have we been able to grow Brainscape into the game-changing company you see today. (more…)
