If You Believe in MOOCs, You Are Assuming Too Much
There has been quite a bit of hype about MOOCs lately. If you haven’t been following the craze – and it is definitely a craze, just as much as Big Data is – a...
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Germans Remember More From Wikis Written by German Soccer Fans
Although the title of this article may seem a little odd, that is exactly the finding that Matschke and colleagues ((Matschke, C., Moskaliuk, J., & Kimmerle, J. (2012). The impact of group membership on...
Can a MOOC Replace Your Teaching? (A Checklist)
In the last several months, massively open online courses (MOOCs) have been presented as a game-changer, a seismic shift, a crisis, and a McDonaldization of higher education. A fair number of universities have jumped...
Recent Cheating Scandal at U of Flordia Highlights Organizational Justice
A few weeks ago, a new cheating scandal erupted at the University of Florida as 97 students in a 250-person course (39%) in Computer Science & Engineering were caught cheating on an online exam. ...
Testing Improves Learning; Quizzing Improves Student Exam Scores
In a recent study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, Roediger, Agarwal, McDaniel and McDermott ((Roediger, H., Agarwal, P., McDaniel, M., & McDermott, K. (2011). Test-enhanced learning in the classroom: Long-term improvements from...
Students Find Multiple-Choice Tests Fun and Rewarding with Gamification
In a recent study by Landers and Callan ((Landers, R. N., & Callan, R. C. (2011). Casual social games as serious games: The psychology of gamification in undergraduate education and employee training. In M....