Math research reveals early-learning needs
Basic arithmetic and focus on numbers is crucial to student successSOURCE: eSchool NewsRead the Full Article
Archive for the ‘Research’ Category
Booz&Co: The power of Web 3.0 – how to prepare–Download the Report
The advent of Web 2.0 allowed users to go beyond the passive consumption of web content, enabling them to participate fully in the actual generation of content on any number of new media.SOURCE: ComputerWeeklyRead the Article and Download the Report
A Network for Wild Experimentation
ESNet and Internet2 have built a networking test bed for ideas that are too disruptive for the networks that people actually use.SOURCE: MIT Technology ReviewRead the Full Article
Which is bigger: California or Los Angeles? Most fourth graders aren’t sure.
Geography results from the National Report Card show that few students have a ‘proficient’ understanding of geography, as reading and math push social sciences out of the classroom.SOURCE: The Christian Science Monitor Read the Full Article
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
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, […]
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 […]
Call for Chapters: Handbook of Mobile Learning
Publisher: Routledge (Imprint of Taylor and Francis Group) Mobile learning (mlearning), involves education and training using connectivity through mobile devices such as PDAs, smartphones, MP3 players, wireless notebooks and hand-held gaming systems. The content of this book will be comprehensive, with each chapter supplying a thorough review of relevant literature, and when possible, it will […]
Computer learns language by playing games
By basing its strategies on the text of a manual, a computer infers the meanings of words without human supervision.SOURCE: MIT Read the Full Article