The Human Factor: The Promise & Limits of Online Education
Sandy Baum,Michael McPherson +1 more
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The idea that online learning might revolutionize higher education, lowering the cost of high-quality learning opportunities for students with limited access to traditional higher education was first proposed by as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
The idea that online learning might revolutionize higher education, lowering the cost of high-quality learning opportunities for students with limited access to traditional higher education, follow...read more
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A Worldwide Journey through Distance Education—From the Post Office to Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Realities, and Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic
TL;DR: An overview of the history of distance learning is provided, taking into account teachers’ and students’ points of view in both secondary and higher education.
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Forced introduction of e-assessment during COVID-19 pandemic: How did the students feel about that? (Sofia University case)
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of students' experience from one of the leading Bulgarian universities -Sofia University (SU) on their views and perspectives about e-assessment was identified.
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The digital divide in online learning in China during the COVID-19 pandemic
Congbin Guo,Boshen Wan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors used data from the Online Learning Survey of High School Students in China to analyze the influencing factors of the first, second, and third level digital divide.
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Satisfaction with online teaching of medical statistics during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A survey by the Education Committee of the Italian Society of Medical Statistics and Clinical Epidemiology
Matteo Rota,Giulia Peveri,Giulia Peveri,Margherita Fanelli,Lucio Torelli,M. Rocchi,Claudia Specchia +6 more
TL;DR: This survey highlighted teachers' perceptions as well as opportunities and limitations of online teaching of medical statistics, biostatistics, and epidemiology and recognized that distance education cannot substitute the unique value of teaching and knowledge exchange that could only be transmitted through a personal interaction between students and teachers.
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Yoga instructors’ reported benefits and disadvantages associated with functioning online: A convenience sampling survey
TL;DR: The benefits and disadvantages of teaching yoga online are of relevance during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic as mentioned in this paper , and their association with characteristics related to (a) socio-demographic, (b) online yoga teaching experience and (c) yoga practice are studied.
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Stereotype threat and the intellectual test performance of African Americans
Claude M. Steele,Joshua Aronson +1 more
TL;DR: The role of stereotype vulnerability in the standardized test performance of ability-stigmatized groups is discussed and mere salience of the stereotype could impair Blacks' performance even when the test was not ability diagnostic.
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Does classroom time matter
Ted Joyce,Ted Joyce,Sean Crockett,Sean Crockett,David A. Jaeger,David A. Jaeger,Onur Altindag,Stephen D. O'Connell +7 more
TL;DR: While the compressed format offers clear savings in classroom space and professors’ time, these savings come at some cost to student performance, and there was little difference in test scores by format in the top tercile of predicted performance.
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Factors in High Quality Distance Learning Courses
TL;DR: Corry (2008) suggests there are several major components to consider when evaluating the quality of a distance learning course which are: "(1) course design, (2) content, (3) the instructor and (4) support systems" (p. 1).