by gary575 | Apr 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Online Education Trumps the Cost Disease by Alex Tabarrok on April 16, 2013 at 7:32 am in Economics, Education, Web/Tech | Permalink In a large, randomized experiment Bowen et al. found that students enrolled in an online/hybrid statistics course learned just as much...
by gary575 | Apr 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
This VentureBeat article introduces a very interesting free resource for bringing the logic of programming to elementary school. The company is Tynker. Its core philosophy is that elementary school-aged children should understand the basics of how computers work and...
by gary575 | Apr 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
There have been a number of articles lately on Software Boot Camps that train you to code in 3 or 4 months and “promise” a job; this article is typical. These “9 week wonder” programs are proliferating in the major tech centers –...
by gary575 | Mar 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Sometimes people end up saying the most ridiculous things – often because the base their positions on faulty assumptions. Today’s New York Times tech section runs an article NYT Beware of the High Cost of Free Online Courses that cites work and the...
by kris | Mar 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
Link shared by Susie Bussmann on 10 Feb 12. One of the affordances of this tool is anywhere anytime access (ubiquitous).
by gary575 | Mar 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
Alex Tabarrok (GMU) post analogizes classroom vs. online learning to live and recorded music – there is some merit to the comparison. If you did not read Alex’s November 2012 Cato Institute article, “Why Online Education Works”, it summarizes...
