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Telementoring, also referred to as e-mentoring or online mentoring, has been carried out in a wide range of K-12 environments and continues to grow in popularity. Through a review of several studies, we argue that the potential for telementoring to support deeper and more authentic school learning will not be fully realized unless researchers pay […]
In 2001, the total budgets of all institutions of higher education in the United States exceeded $255 billion (Chronicle, 2004). In the public sector, state colleges and universities accounted for 11.8 percent of all state government general fund expenditures (Education Commission of the States, 2003). By nearly any measure then, higher education expenditures are significant […]
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — For young Americans, the “food landscape†in television advertising is packed with junk food, according to a new study.Read the Full Story
ABSTRACTUniversity students used a set of existing and purpose-built on-line tools for vocabulary learning in an experimental ESL course. The resources included concordance, dictionary, cloze-builder, hypertext, and a database with interactive self-quizzing feature (all freely available at www.lextutor.ca). The vocabulary targeted for learning consisted of (a) Coxhead’s (2000) Academic Word List, a list of items […]
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Results from the first long-term study of online videogame playing may be surprising.Read the Full Story