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With the rise of the internet, schools are seeing an epidemic of cut-and-paste plagiarism. But the same technology that’s making plagiarism easy is being used by teachers to catch copycats in the act.Read the Full Story
A week after one of the most successful mobile learning conferences, Handheld Learning 2006, held in London in association with the DfES, the UK was fully represented at the 5th World Conference on Mobile Learning hosted by Athabasca University and held in Banff, Alberta, Canada where delegates from over 20 countries came together to explore […]
States should expand precollegiate online learning by allowing teachers to teach across state lines and removing student seat-time requirements, according to a report that tracks the fast growth of state virtual-learning programs.Read the Full Story
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Forest Hill High School graduate Elizabeth Aubuchon just assumed she’d go to Palm Beach Community College to study radiography – a two-year program that would allow her to do X-rays and MRIsRead the Full Story
Slide over, laptop-lugging, work-at-will professional. Lounging and logging on next to you is a brand-new species of telecommuter.Read the Full Story
States should expand precollegiate online learning by allowing teachers to teach across state lines and removing student seat-time requirements, according to a report that tracks the fast growth of state virtual-learning programs.Read the Full Story
Starting college can be daunting for parents, especially when they’re the students. Read the Full Story
People often implicitly ascribe the quality of peer–production projects such as Project Gutenberg or Wikipedia to what I call “laws†of quality. These are drawn from Open Source software development and it is not clear how applicable they are outside the realm of software. I look at examples from peer production projects to ask whether […]
In addition to learning basic course content, our method provides students with independent learning opportunities, a distinct advantage for more self-directed students (Boud, 1988; Brookfield, 1981; Dressel & Thompson, 1973; Marshall & Rowland, 1993; Moore, 1973). Independent learning occurs when students create resource guides after selecting a specific topic to study within the discipline. For […]