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Athabasca U's Theory and Practice of Online Learning
Athabasca University's Center for Distance Education (CDE) in Canada offers this online tutorial expressing their expert notions of the theory and practice of online learning. Canada, the UK, and some EU countries have been very much more concerned about developing online learning than has been the United States. See also: http://cde.athabascau.ca/
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NYT: How to Fix Our (USA) Math Education
In the New York Times "opinions" section of 11.08.24 writers Sol Garfunkel and David Mumford propose a more flexible curriculum with which to teach (U.S. K-12) math knowledge and skills.
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NYT: Are Research Papers a Waste of Time?
A number of instruction experts discuss whether assigning research papers to college students are worthwhile learning exercises. The article makes a very few comparisons to the merits of using essay assignments. NYT 11.08.30
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NYT: Quality Homework - A Smart Idea
The Sunday New York Times of 11.09.11 featured this article by author Annie Murphy Paul. The article summarizes recent findings in cognitive psychology and brain science (neuroscience) which strongly suggest that homework needs to be improved to use "spaced repetition, memory retrieval practice, and cognitive disfluency." She defines each term in the article and references several journals.
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