Spaced Learning

This course focuses on how teachers can use spaced learning to optimise students’ deep learning and long-term recall. 

Throughout the course, you will find a range of resources, strategies, and further readings to enable you to adapt your curriculum to meet your students’ needs.

Lesson One: Introduction

The first lesson provides an overview of spaced learning, covering what distributed practice is, how it can enhance learning outcomes, and the common challenges faced when applying this approach.

Lesson Two: How Distributed Practice Improves Learning

This lesson explores the underlying learning mechanisms that make distributed practice a powerful tool, deepening teachers’ understanding of how to implement spaced learning in the classroom.

 Lesson Three: Evidence-based Approaches to Distributed Practice

Lesson Three offers expert advice and an analysis of what the evidence base for distributed practice indicates is best practice in the classroom.

Lesson Four: Teaching with Distributed Practice

Evidence-based methods to plan for and implement distributed practice in real-world classroom settings are looked at in depth in this lesson..

Lesson Five: Resources

The final lesson includes videos, articles, web links, and suggested further reading that teachers can use to enhance their understanding of distributed practice.