Search Results - subject:"E‑Learning"

The Returns to Online Postsecondary Education

Hoxby, Caroline M. - 2017

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Online Accounting Education and CPA Exam Success

Morgan, John P. - 2017

The quality of online accounting education relative to more traditional classroom-based accounting education remains a contentious and poorly understood topic. The research presented here compares average CPA exam scores of first-time candidates who have earned accounting degrees from online...

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Online Learning and Teacher Practice

Edwards, Tracy - 2017

The purpose of the research was to explore the experiences of a group of 3 ELA teachers as they participated in online professional development using a social learning network. Utilizing case study methodology, the researcher examined how an online social learning network could be used to impact...

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An Empirical Study of Potential Challenges and Benefits of Implementing E-Learning in Sri Lanka

Gunawardana, Kennedy - 2017

bottlenecks and, forecasts the future growth of E-learning in Sri Lanka as a host in Asia. Of 50 Educational institutes selected … for such surveys. Awareness of e-learning among the educational Institute is very high but investment to develop an e-learning … shows that there are significant differences across both forms of e-learning and type of educational Institutes …

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Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India

Muralidharan, Karthik - 2017

We present experimental evidence on the impact of a technology-aided after-school instruction program on learning outcomes in middle school grades in urban India, using a lottery that provided students with a voucher to cover program costs. A key feature of the program was its ability to...

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Peer Effects in Computer Assisted Learning : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Fafchamps, Marcel - 2017

We conduct a large scale RCT to investigate peer effects in computer assisted learning (CAL). Identification of peer effects relies on three levels of randomization. It is already known that CAL improves math test scores in Chinese rural schools. We find that paired treatment improves the...

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Gamifying Content and Language Integrated Learning with Serious Videogames

Pitarch, Ricardo Casañ - 2017

New methods and approaches focusing on foreign language teaching are continuously being developed and applied in the classroom at different educational levels. The interest in raising learners' competences in foreign languages has been a fact in the last few decades. In this sense, approaches...

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Taking a MOOC : Socio-Cultural Aspects of Virtual Interaction in a Multicultural Learning Community

Pavlovskaya, Galina - 2017

Featuring different approaches to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) among education policy makers, theorists and practitioners in the field and highlighting an increasing popularity of this educational phenomenon worldwide, the article provides a brief record of MOOCs' success at Harvard...

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A New Lens for Looking at MOOC Data to Predict Student Performance

Sharma, Kshitij - 2017

We present two novel methods to predict students' grades using their action time series in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The main motivation behind this contribution comes from three main differences in the methods used in previous research. First, the methods used to analyze time series...

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Heuristics and Web Skills Acquisition in Open Learning Environments

Domínguez Figaredo, Daniel - 2017

Web literacy refers to the skills and competencies people need in order to function in societies connected through the Internet. Many of the frameworks for understanding the components of web literacy are limited in value because they rely on conceptual definitions. They do not take into...

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