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Research shows Online Learning Better than Face-to-face
Jul 10 2009
Posted by Carol in (e)Learning & (e)Teaching |
Derek Wenmoth, in a post on the DEANZ blog, led me to this report from the US Department of Education.
A U.S. Department of Education analysis of research studies undertaken between 1996 and 2008 concludes that:
Blended Learning is the most effective mode of education;
Online Learning is more effective than face-to-face;
Face-to-face learning alone is the least effective [...]
There’s a lot being webbed and blogged about the Microsoft six degrees research at the moment. It seems that we might all be linked by 6 degrees of separation after all. The research looked at 30bn instant messages in one month in 2006. Apparently the sample was linked by seven or fewer acquaintances. With such [...]
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