What’s New in Online Learning?
Source: nwanews.com
By: Brett Bennett
Texting is considered a distracting, and thus dangerous, activity to do while driving.
But can sending those short little messages, often loaded with acronyms and shortened words, hinder 1’s ability 2 do othr thngs, like rite a term papr?
It isn’t clear what impact the frequent use of abbreviation while texting has on student [...]
Source: thejournal.com
By: David Nagel
The United States Department of Education reported recently that it’s found some evidence to support the notion that blended learning is more effective than either face to face or online learning by themselves. Further, between online and face to face instruction, online is at least as good and may even have the [...]
Source: examiner.com
By: Cindy Ausbrooks
The current state of the economy has impacted numerous working professionals, and even teachers have not been spared. Even those aspiring educators who enter Arkansas’ nontraditional program, in which college graduates may teach while working toward their full certification, have failed to find jobs. In fact, a failure rate of 17 percent [...]
Source: thejournal.com
By: David Nagel
Florida Virtual School this week rolled out a series of courses based around a new educational game called Conspiracy Code.
Developed in conjunction with 360Ed, an educational software developer, Conspiracy Code is an online, immersive, 3D game designed to provide an active learning environment for high school students, one that’s [...]
Source: thejournal.com
By: David Nagel
The Idaho Digital Learning Academy, a virtual K-12 school established by the Idaho legislature in 2002, is looking to accelerate the identification of students who need special help to succeed academically.
To help with the effort, the school has signed on with Starfish Retention Solutions, which is providing Starfish Early Alert and Starfish [...]
Source: thejournal.com
By: David Nagel
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills has added three more states to its membership. The group announced Tuesday that Illinois, Louisiana, and Nevada have joined the organization, bringing the total state membership to 13.
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a coalition of business and education groups focused on technology education and [...]
Source: Chronicle.com
By: Austin Wright
Over the past two decades, tuition has risen at public colleges while money spent on classroom instruction has dropped, suggesting that students are paying more for less, says a report released today by the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity, and Accountability.
The report is based on a study that used 20 [...]
Source: usatoday.com
By: Erin Thompson
Teens and young adults are more likely in their free time to check their Facebook page than read a book.
And they are dumber for it.
That is Mark Bauerlein’s contention in The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30), recently released [...]
