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Optimize Learning Through Science

COGx translates research from cognitive science into evidence-based programs that improve student learning outcomes.

The Need...

#1
Teaching

The current approach to teaching is often disconnected from how students learn (Hynes, 2014). A global crisis is emerging of learners of all ages being unprepared for future employment and prosperity (UNICEF, 2022), increasing achievement and opportunity gaps (UNESCO, 2023) with “uneducated, uninspired, and unskilled” learners (UNICEF, 2022).

#2
Learning

Learning is a scientific process, and for students to learn optimally they must be taught (Bjork et al., 2013: Dunlosky 2021). This is true regardless of cognitive abilities and disposition towards learning. Students often use ineffective techniques such as highlighting and re-reading, with limited success. Such strategies are rooted in the misconception about learning (Bjork & Bjork, 2011).

#3
Society

Misconceptions about teaching and learning based on intuition have led to an epidemic of disengagement in schools (Evans, 2023), higher education (Chronicle of Higher Ed, 2022; NY Times, 2022), and the workplace (Society for HR Management, 2023). By 2030, there will be a global human talent shortage of over 85 million people, causing an $8.5 trillion loss to global GDP (Korn Ferry, 2023).

Our mission is to democratize the science of learning, so teaching is aligned to developing the learners' skills and learning becomes the goal of all teaching

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Did You Know?

of educators wish for more tools to foster efficacious learning in their students
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of educators said that their students don’t know how to learn in an optimal way.
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educators said that learning would improve if they were trained to identify learning differences to personalize instruction.
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Source: COGx Global Survey
We surveyed over 1,000 educators from around the world. The results highlighted the challenges in the current education system.

Download COGx Global Survey Report - 2024
The Case for the Science of Learning in Schools
"...not only can we put cognitive science discoveries into practice, but I believe we're ethically obligated to do so; the benefits of cognitively friendly instruction are so profound that inaction at this point would be tantamount to malpractice. We have knowledge that can save students from the educational winnower and help them realize a lifelong love of learning. It's time to put that knowledge to work."
Prof. Sarma (MIT)Author of "Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn"
"In the past few decades, knowledge of human learning and development has proliferated rapidly.”
(Darling-Hammond et al., 2020; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2018)Cognitive Science - Academic Research
"The current approach to teaching is often disconnected from how students learn and causes too many students to drop-out, struggle, and/or work too hard to do well. This in turn, inhibits interest and careers in STEM, which are often perceived to be “too hard” by students or “for smart kids”
(Hines, 2014)Cognitive Science - Academic Research
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