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Education is about interaction, not content
The scarcity of content through much of human history (remember when they used to chain books to shelves in libraries?) has allowed us to collectively confuse education with the delivery of content. It was about the lecture, in which rare … Continue reading
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Tagged academic institutions, academy, assumptions, Books, business, college, content space, Education, experience, face-to-face, internet, knowledge, margaret edson, myth of scarcity of content, parents, school, students, Video
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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 … Continue reading
