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"Instructional designers are consumers (and sometimes producers) of the learning science literature - and they bring this knowledge base into their work with faculty. Once faculty have the opportunity to learn and apply learning science research for their online courses, they will want to do the same for their residential courses."

French university École 42 torches the instruction manual on how to educate software engineers. It eliminates teachers. It doesn't make students memorize facts, or even buy books. There's no syllabus or curriculum to be found anywhere in the school's Paris headquarters. And to top it off, it doesn't charge students any tuition or fees.

Pocket Anatomy's human anatomy Apps assist medical and healthcare students study and prepare for their human anatomy exams via their iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch Apple device.

Through its Extended Campus, Oregon State University offers accredited online degrees undergraduate and graduate, including Natural Resources, Environmental Sciences, Nuclear Engineering, as well as a K-12 online program.

Abstract: This is the largest and most comprehensive metaanalysis of undergraduate STEM education published to date. The results raise questions about the continued use of traditional lecturing as a control in research studies, and support active learning as the preferred, empirically validated teaching practice in regular classrooms.

Excerpt: "faculty autonomy, competence, and relatedness positively predicted autonomous motivation (intrinsic, identified), but not controlled motivation (introjected, external). Autonomous motivation, in turn, predicted greater incorporation of effective teaching strategies, namely instructional clarity, higher-order learning, reflective and integrative learning, and collaborative learning."

"students appear to have a subjective threshold; they are willing to invest a certain amount of energy in any given assignment, and once the limit is reached outsourcing is sought as the means to quit without losing the qualification" "[Contract Cheating Firm's] marketing is pervasive and hard to dismiss, predicated on the students' perceived risks of failure and the disparity of students' abilities to deliver solutions that meet the academic requirements of their course"