Learning and teaching

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• AI tutoring How AI tutors sequence material, check understanding and give feedback, from intelligent tutoring systems to LLM tutors, and the dispute over whether chatbots help or harm learning.
• Moral education through questioning Socratic dialogue, dilemma discussion, Philosophy for Children, the question-behaviour effect and coaching questions, and whether they improve moral reasoning and conduct beyond the classroom.
• Self-study materials What makes static material studied alone effective: worked examples, hints, self-explanation, self-tests, feedback, spacing, placement; the evidence for most design rules is thin.
• Transfer of learning Teaching adults so they use a topic in their own work over time: what instruction and written references achieve it, and how little of the evidence measures later use.
• Tutoring interfaces Whether the interface of an AI tutor (structured lesson page versus chat) changes learning, and which interface features, such as confidence ratings, self-explanation prompts and closed-book quizzes, carry any effect.