By Tony Bates, on August 8th, 2010
Babcock, P. and Marks, M. (2010) Leisure College USA: The Decline in Student Study Time Washington DC: The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Results
This paper found that in 1961 ‘the average full-time student at a four-year college in the United States studied about 24 hours per week, while his modern counterpart [...]
By Tony Bates, on July 20th, 2010
Smith Jaggars, S. and Bailey, T. (2010) Effectiveness of Fully Online Courses for College Students: Response to a Department of Education Meta-Analysis New York: Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University.
From the abstract:
Proponents of postsecondary online education were recently buoyed by a meta-analysis sponsored by the U.S. Department of [...]
By Tony Bates, on July 14th, 2010
Maxim Jean-Louis, the President of Contact North, was one of the participants in the recent HEQCO meeting to discuss possible areas of research that would inform the development of a new Ontario Online Institute.
Following the meeting, he produced a very interesting document for HEQCO entitled: A Research Framework for the Online Learning Institute [...]
By Tony Bates, on June 8th, 2010
Victoria Harbour, BC
On Sunday, I attended a very interesting meeting of about 50 instructional designers (what is a good collective noun for instructional designers?) from across British Columbia, at Camosun College, Victoria. This was a pre-conference workshop before the Educational Technology Users Group of BC’s Spring Workshop (more on [...]
By Tony Bates, on June 2nd, 2010
Science Daily (2010) Empathy: College students don’t have as much as they used to, study finds Science Daily, May 29
Some people have bad hair days; I have bad research days, i.e. days when bad research dominates the news headlines (the media are as much to blame as the researchers). It started this morning [...]
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