Posts Tagged ‘efficacy of online tutoring’
Don’t Let Your Brain Take A Vacation
Summer is here. While your schedule may be more lax, your mind shouldn’t be. University of Missouri-Columbia psychology professor, Dr. Harris Cooper, gives a good reason for students to keep last year’s notebooks open this summer. His study shows that students lose one to three months worth of learning over summer break. The study also found that “the negative [...]
Learn to Play the Game
As with all things in life, you need to learn how to play the game to win. Online tutoring cannot be used as a safety net for those who skip class or miss class assignments. Government findings have concluded that “instruction conducted entirely online is as effective as classroom instruction but no better.” It is only [...]
Success Leads to Adoption
By the 2004-2005 school year, The National Center for Education Statistics discovered that 37 percent of school districts offered technology-supported distance education courses. Enrollment in this combination of two-way videos and online tools was estimated to be 506,950, a remarkable 60% increase over just two years before. As the impressive results rolled in, online education [...]
Online tutoring – not new, but certainly improved
‘Distance education,’ or that of learning outside of a classroom by means of technology, has been around for many years, serving as an alternative to face-to-face learning. As early as 2000, studies showed telecommunicated education to be just as effective as learning in a classroom. The difference between then and now however, is the advent [...]
Online Tutors Boldly Go Where Others Can’t
Thanks to the worldwide reach of the internet, online college tutoring has yet another advantage: Students in rural places or international locales can now access concierge tutoring services with just the click of a button. Working with an elite tutor can boost students’ achievement no matter where they live. While old-fashioned tutoring is limited to local [...]
The Edge to Get Ahead
Have you been looking for a supplement for your learning that will really boost your grades? The U.S . Department of Education recently released the results of a meta-analysis of studies on the efficacy of different teaching methods. The study combed through over one-thousand independently conducted studies and analyzed those which were found to fit [...]
