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Adaptive Learning White Paper | Knewton
Adaptive learning
When most people use this phrase, what they’re really discussing is either a) single-point adaptivity, which evaluates a student’s performance at one point in time in order to determine the level of instruction or material she receives from that point on, or b) adaptive…
Annotating Online: Reading And Writing The Web
Citelighter for student research and annotation
My favorite new app to use with my students is Citelighter because it combines the ideas of social bookmarking, note-taking, and citation-managing with some promising teacher tools. The students in my media production class used Citelighter to help them manage information they…
Bbc News - Scots Universities Set Tuition Fee Rates
Scottish universities charge fees to English students
Students resident in Scotland will not pay, but SNP ministers decided to bring in charges to protect places. The decision to allow English universities to charge up to £9,000 for tuition sparked concern over "fee refugees" heading to Scotland. A number of Scots universities…
The Benefits Of No-tech Note Taking - Advice - The Chronicle Of Higher Education
Manual note taking is more learning-efficient than using the computer
A study published last year in Psychological Science showed that students who write out notes longhand remember conceptual information better than those who take notes on a computer. "Whereas taking more notes can be beneficial," the article’s abstract reported, "laptop note…