Distance
Education Attracts Older Women With Families
and Jobs, a New Study FindsThe
report offers the most recent large-scale
research into who enrolls in distance-education
programs. Overall, about 7.6 percent of
students taking college courses during the
1999-2000 academic year did so through distance
education. Observers figure that the percentage
has grown since then.
Chron. of Higher
Ed.
01/2002
Can
Web Courses Replace the Classroom? Lessons
from Microeconomics: The
proliferation of economics courses offered
partly or completely on-line raises important
questions about the effects of the new technologies
on student learning. This paper addresses
these questions using student data from
our principles of microeconomics courses
at Michigan State University.
Innovations
in Online Learning: Moving Beyond No Significant
DifferenceAs
we enter the new millennium, colleges and
universities are offering thousands of online
courses and, in the process, are ostensibly
altering centuries-old methods of teaching
and learning. Some would argue that this
represents a paradigm shift. But does it?