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Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education
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The e-textbooks typically cost at least 80 percent of the print price.
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“They tend to read backward and forward. It’s characteristic of the learning process.”
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The Future of Higher Education: Beyond the Campus | EDUCAUSE
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Higher education’s purpose is to equip students for success in life
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E-learning context is very important. It is common to find educators who perceive e-learning as internet-only education that encourages a static and content-focused series of text pages on screen. Others envisage the shallow and random online messages that are typical of a social real-time chat session, and wonder how that type of communication could add any value to academic discourse. Some may have experienced e-learning done poorly, and extrapolate their experience into a negative impression of all e-learning.
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Problem-Based Learning: A Quick Review « Teaching Professor
Nice, short summary of why PBL is a Good Thing
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PBL promotes learning by emphasizing the formulation of questions raised by the problem rather than definitive solutions to it
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Linking the problem to individual experience positively impacts motivation. It’s the principle of connecting what is new to what is already known
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PBL relies heavily on active learning. Students work on the problem. They do research, make decisions, prepare reports, and give presentations
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Real-world problems do not generally fit within the boundaries of a single discipline
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the goal is to solve the problem with an application of relevant content
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Students work on problems in groups or teams, thereby gaining experience and skill in small-group dynamics
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Reference: Graaff, E. D., and Kolmos, A. (2003) Characteristics of problem-based learning. International Journal of Engineering Education, 19 (5), 657-662
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