The next time you see college students using their smartphone while eating or standing in line, don't assume they're surfing the internet or checking social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

Typical study methods like lectures, cramming, and re-reading are ineffective. According to scientific research, they don’t help students retain information over the long term. What works is spaced ...

Remember what it was like as a kid memorizing your spelling words or math facts and using flash cards to help them stick in your brain? These days, there are high-tech versions of the old-school flash ...

StudyBlue is a neat webapp that lets you create digital flash cards directly from notes you take in class or anywhere else. You can also take the cards you create just about anywhere with mobile apps ...

While students have been using flash cards to memorize facts and vocabulary at least since the Victorian era, it’s no secret that the study tools can be deathly dull. Hoping to change that is Duolingo ...