The Future of Education

[katheryncruz24]

Nice idea!

[mateo3470]

"Growing numbers of students are sent to college at increasingly higher costs, but for a large proportion of them the gains in critical thinking, complex reasoning, and written communication are either exceedingly small or empirically nonexistent. At least 45 percent of students in our sample did not demonstrate any statistically significant improvement in Collegiate Learning Assessment [CLA] performance during the first two years of college." (Chronicle of Higher Education)

[mateo3470]

"A systematic search of the research literature from 1996 through July 2008 identified more than a thousand empirical studies of online learning....The meta-analysis found that, on average, students in online learning conditions performed modestly better than those receiving face-to-face instruction." (U.S. Dept. of Education)

[8legsFreak]

Mockery aside, this is a very good idea for an university