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The Empty Chair That Isn’t Empty: Notes on Education at a Glance 2026
The OECD’s annual report finds that 9.1% of teachers are not fully qualified, that falling pupil numbers will not automatically ease shortages, and that a new graduate-unemployment trend should not…
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Seeing the Invisible: Can Augmented Reality Help Students Understand Solar Cells?
Chemistry students who learned about organic solar cells with an augmented-reality app gained more understanding and held fewer misconceptions. But the effect was unusually large and needs replicating.
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Less Frazzled, But Any Wiser? AI, Overload and Student Wellbeing
A survey of 390 university students in Bangladesh links useful, frequent AI use with less cognitive overload and better mental health, but it cannot show cause and effect, and it…
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On, Off, Idle: How Student Engagement Flickers During Group Work
A study combining video and EEG finds that students in group work switch between on-task, off-task and idle states every 10–30 seconds, and that time on task predicts test scores.
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The Spinning Wheel Problem: How a Second or Two of Loading Can Cost Learning
A new study of more than 80,000 online learners finds that page-loading delays of just one to two seconds are linked to less engagement and lower achievement.