In this article we discuss the role of desirable difficulties in vocabulary learning from two perspectives, one having to do with identifying conditions of learning that impose initial challenges to the learner but then benefit later retention and transfer, and the other having to do with the role of certain difficulties that are intrinsic to language processes, are engaged during word learning...

Erroneous examples, an unusual and challenging form of learning material, are arguably a type of desirable difficulty for students that could lead to deeper learning. In a series of studies we have done over the past three years involving web-based math instruction, the learning benefits of erroneous examples we have observed occured on delayed tests, as occurs in the desirable difficulties lit...

Nigeria has had several housing programmes and policies geared towards the provision of housing her citizens since colonial era to the post-colonial period. The Nigerian Government had always been directly involved in the provision of housing for the public servants and with the advent of the public-private partnership initiative, the low-income public servants’ acceptability of this new housin...

The idea of a stringent climate club, once the reserve academic debates, is quickly gaining ground in international policy circles. This reflects dissatisfaction with multilateral UNFCCC process, but also hope that minilateral club could increase ambition, reinvigorate Paris Agreement and make future emissions pledges stick. With Biden Presidency renewing US commitment toward action European Gr...

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on working, travel and residential location patterns have attracted much commentary from scholars practitioners interested in future cities regions. Focusing Europe, we discuss how pandemic-fuelled remote working tourism practices increased demand for short-term rentals second homes rural/coastal areas as well a number desirable cities. has accelerated pre-e...

In 1871 an Act was passed by the Bengal Legislature regulating lodging-houses at Puri; it was expected that 3.168 houses would be licensed under the Act, but it appears that only 497 houses have up to this time been licensed, accommodating 14,463 of the 45.000 pilgrims sometimes assembled together at Puri. The Englishman argues, that, as the Government has lately ordered any tea-garden in which...