Remember what it was like as a kid memorizing your spelling words or math facts and using flash cards to help them make it to your brain? Well, these days, there are high tech versions of the ...

It's a fancy way to say you're studying with flashcards, but it's also a better way. Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as ...

I was recently asked if I had any recommendations for “electronic flash cards” for studying things like vocabulary, SAT terms, and foreign languages. It was a convenient coincidence, because I was ...

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.

Which sign language flash cards are best? Millions of people around the world use sign language as their sole means of communication, so it’s no wonder that many people are interested in learning it.

A few years back, I reviewed the Mac version of iFlash, an outstanding study aid that lets you create onscreen flash cards and provides a number of effective quiz modes for studying them. The only ...

Ethics is a fundamental skill in accounting, but it is difficult to teach in a way that gives students confidence to use and test frameworks. Here, Catriona Hyde explains how simple flash cards can ...

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 ...