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Study finds on-line education beats classroom, but what does that mean?
A recent study for the Department of Education (NY Times piece; full 93-page PDF report) performed a meta-analysis of 99 students over the past 12 years, and found that students in on-line courses did slightly, but statistically significantly, better than those in traditional classrooms.
It’s an interesting study, and likely to spur a whole new slew [...]
Posted in Education Also tagged classroom learning, department of education, Education, face-to-face, Morris, on-line communities, on-line learning, students, teacher, teaching, traditional classrooms, UMM, University of Minnesota Morris, web Comments closed
Cool discussion of Web 2.0 by ThoughtWorks crew
I spent a lot of time on the road to & from the Twin Cities in the last few weeks, so I used that chance to catch up on some old podcasts and explore some new ones. A really nifty discovery this weekend was a panel discussion on Web 2.0 by the smart folks [...]
Posted in Computing, Web development Also tagged design, podcast, software, technology, user generated content, Web 2.0, web technology Comments closed
How times change; how books change
Penguin’s promoting some exploration of the concept of “book” in their We tell stories series, where six authors have contributed new works, each of which explores some aspect of on-line story-telling, sometimes quite distinct from more traditional printed books.
Not all of these are equally successful (I thought the idea of “The 21 steps” was better [...]
Posted in Books, Computing, Education Also tagged Books, media distribution, statistics Comments closed
JOCP! At revision 400!
It’s pretty cool when you update your repository and see
At revision 400
We just hit that on the genetic programming book that Riccardo and Bill and I are working on; we’re currently averaging close to 10 commits a day here in the final stages. We hope to wrap it up in the next 1.5 weeks [...]
Posted in Books, Computing, Education, My writing, Research, Science, Writing Also tagged Books, evolution, evolutionary computation, genetic programming, GP Book, programming, Research, Sabbatical, Writing Comments closed
It seems that the “why” makes all the difference
In “Is language extinction a good thing?” Thomas Hawks reviews some recent writing on language extinction, focusing on differing attitudes to the question of how “bad” it really is when a language goes extinct.
Languages are clearly fluid, dynamic things, and statistically we’re going to lose some along the way. In this age of massive [...]
Posted in Education, Politics Also tagged culture, diversity, extinction, globalization, history, language, Music, podcast Comments closed
It’s worth 10 minutes of your time
And the day after I get around to posting this, he announces that he’s not running after all. Sigh. The reasons he gives in his new video are clear and convincing, however, and there’s always the possibility that he might run in the future when the notice is not so short.
It’s probably old [...]
Posted in Events, Politics Also tagged Change Congress, culture, economics, elections, future, law, Lawrence Lessig, Politics, school board, Video Comments closed
No, I really do think we need a science debate
Yesterday I posted a somewhat knee-jerk vote in favor of the idea of a science debate. Poking a little at the enormous lists of blog posts on this topic that A Blog Around The Clock has collected, one finds that while most people are definitely in favor, some people aren’t entirely convinced. The [...]
It’s not about me getting old. Honest.
I was listening to a recent podcast from Steve Lamacq’s “In new music we trust” program where he was interviewing the Video Nasties. At one point Lamacq asks them how they got turned on to all these classic punk recordings as kids. It was from going through their dad’s record collection!
When I went [...]
Twilight of the novel?
The death of the book has been oft prophesied, and so far the old dear keeps hanging in there. Here Bill Janssen is quoted by Peter Brantley, suggesting that what the casualties may be are forms of content rather than forms of publishing.
Will the novel become a marginal form like opera?
In the hype around [...]
Posted in Books, Computing, Education, Writing Also tagged Books, economics, media distribution, publishing, Writing Comments closed
A heartfelt plug for “A history of the world in 100 objects”