An interesting piece in the NY Times documents research suggesting that online learners tend to score higher in various testing programs.
Although I have found retention numbers lower in my online and hybrid classes, I have long felt that rapidly evolving technology is erasing the liabilities in the online setting for me. As the article suggests, chat, easy video, and social networking functions are making the online setting much more appealing.
I have been experimenting with a social network based system for my onsite comp course (signsabound.com) and enjoying it so far.
Seeing this study summarized in the Times simply strengthens my resolve to keep developing my online skills.
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Keynesian stimulus can fail in many ways. Becker notes that it is usually late. Posner suggests that it doesn't have to be late, but it should be better designed. Both the timing and the design failures, however, derive from the political nature of any large special stimulus. Becker seems closer to the point. Whether its late our designed with an eye to political favorites, stimuli passed by legislatures are bound to be economically inefficient.
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