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Entries from June 21st, 2010

For the One Millionth Time, This is NOT Online Learning…

June 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Distance Education

The Chronicle boldly proclaimed today that “Online Learning May Slightly Hurt Student Performance.” How do they know this? A “study found that students who watched lectures online instead of attending in-person classes performed slightly worse in the course over all.”
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The Best Place To Learn IS On The Web

June 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Distance Education

Much has been said recently about how the Web is making us more stupid. I blame Bing really – they said that humans are basically so dumb that we go on search overload if we can’t figure out a simple page of links.  I don’t feel “stupider” than I did before the [...]

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