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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 change, classroom learning, department of education, Education, face-to-face, Morris, on-line communities, on-line learning, students, teacher, teaching, traditional classrooms, University of Minnesota Morris, web Comments closed
This is really why I teach
Tyler Hutchison did a wonderful drawing of himself, Brian Ohs, and me for possible use as an illustration for a UMM piece on our best paper award at EuroGP 2008 in Naples.
Buried deep enough I’ve got sand in my mouth
I'm not dead, just swamped. It might get better. Please?
Posted in Computing, Education, Family Also tagged blogging, computer science, corn dogs, Family, medical imaging, students, teaching Comments closed
Wrapping one’s head around the data
JOCP! It’s been almost five days since I’ve posted anything here, and I have so much backed up in the queue…
There’s a major conference deadline (GECCO 2008) in a few days, and I’m struggling to finish up four different (and only loosely related) papers for submission. On top of that I leave Sunday [...]
Posted in Computing, Events, Photography, Research, Sabbatical, Science, Travels Also tagged Computing, Dagstuhl, evolutionary computation, GECCO, MICS, my photography, Research, Science Comments closed
I love our students (alumni edition)