Open University sets £5,000 tuition fees
The Open University has announced tuition fees of £5,000 per year from next year – making it much cheaper than most other universities.SOURCE: BBC News Read the Full Article
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Study Finds That Memory Works Differently in the Age of Google
The rise of Internet search engines like Google has changed the way our brain remembers information, according to research by Columbia University psychologist Betsy Sparrow published July 14 in Science.SOURCE: Columbia University Read the Full Article
Online and Incomplete
Community college students who enroll in distance courses are more likely to fail or drop out than are those in in-person classes, study finds.SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed Read the Full Article
Student Effort, Consistency and Online Performance
AbstractThis paper examines how student effort, consistency, motivation, and marginal learning, influence student grades in an online course. We use data from eleven Microeconomics courses taught online for a total of 212 students. Our findings show that consistency, or less time variation, is a statistically significant explanatory variable, whereas effort, or total minutes spent online, […]
Amazon unveils Kindle Textbook Rental
Amazon on Monday announced Kindle Textbook Rental, which will enable students to save up to 80 percent off the retail prices of textbooks, by renting them as ebooks from the Kindle Store, instead of purchasing them outright. It’s like a library—only one that you pay for the privilege of borrowing from.SOURCE: McWorldRead the Full Article
From Technologist to Philosopher
Why you should quit your technology job and get a Ph.D. in the humanitiesSOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education Read the Full Article
Wireless Grids Corp., Syracuse University partner to offer ‘WeJay’
Wireless Grids Corp. (WGC) and Syracuse University announce an agreement to offer a promising social media application of WGC’s social radio application called “WeJay.” SOURCE: Syracuse UniversityRead the Full Article
Services for Academic Libraries in the New Era
AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to document the integration of Web 2.0 [1] services into the working framework of some of the most advanced academic libraries in the world. It reports a follow-up study that builds on a previous study conducted approximately two years ago. The comparison of those two studies produces interesting findings, […]
The Impact of an Honor Code on Cheating in Online Courses
AbstractThree studies were conducted to assess the effect of an honor code on self-reported cheating during online quizzes in an Introductory Psychology course. In Study 1 (N = 40), the authors found that 72.5% of students reported cheating on at least one of the 14 quizzes (M = 4.15), typically by consulting the textbook or […]
Distance learning in Africa ‘struggling’
Dar es Salaam. Open and Distance Learning (ODL) in Africa is still struggling with credibility issues as governments have put very little policies for quality assurance, it has been observed.There is seemingly lack of interest in establishing national quality assurance systems by the authorities to improve education in the continent.SOURCE: The Citizen Read the Full […]