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Direct linkBettinger, Eric; Loeb, Susanna – Center on Children and Families at Brookings, 2017
Online courses have expanded rapidly and have the potential to extend further the educational opportunities of many students, particularly those least well-served by traditional educational institutions. However, in their current design, online courses are difficult, especially for the students who are least prepared. These students' learning and…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Evidence, Educational Opportunities, Educational Improvement
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Download full textOlcott, Don, Jr. – Open Praxis, 2013
Traditional and affordable access to a university education is under siege from all sides. National realpolitiks and global economic downturns have driven open education into the mainstream to stand against educational elitism, the growing digital divide, and to support the core values that give education its fundamental credence as a human right.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Open Education, Quality Assurance, Cost Effectiveness
Koszalka, Tiffany A.; Ntloedibe-Kuswani, G. S. – Distance Education, 2010
Worldwide growth in use of mobile phones has fostered the emergence of mobile learning. Mobile technologies are used both in classrooms to support instruction (safe) and as tools that significantly change instructional activities, learner roles, and learning location (disruptive). Learners become less consumers of information and more…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Information Technology, Literature Reviews
Groenke, Susan Lee; Youngquist, Michelle – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
When the authors taught Walter Dean Myers's postmodern young adult novel "Monster" to ninth graders, they assumed the students would like the text, as its format and style resemble that of popular television crime shows. The authors also assumed the students would be savvy readers of the text, capable of understanding and integrating postmodern…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Adolescents, Postmodernism, Novels
Jackson, Mary Jo; Helms, Marilyn M. – Journal of Education for Business, 2008
One popular teaching approach is a hybrid format balancing traditional face-to-face classroom instruction with online components. The authors used strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats methodology to examine if hybrid formats meet student expectations and the M. T. Miller and D. E. Husmann (1996) classification system to identify…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Educational Quality, Blended Learning
Savery, John R. – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2006
Problem-based learning (PBL) is an instructional approach that has been used successfully for over 30 years and continues to gain acceptance in multiple disciplines. It is an instructional (and curricular) learner-centered approach that empowers learners to conduct research, integrate theory and practice, and apply knowledge and skills to develop…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Definitions, Learner Controlled Instruction, Theory Practice Relationship
