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Title: Traditional lectures sent to the back of the class - Sarah Schmidt, Canada.com Post by: Stephen Taylor on August 01, 2007, 09:26:38 AM Traditional lectures sent to the back of the class - Sarah Schmidt, Canada.com
The 2006 Technology and Student Success Survey, commissioned by education publisher McGraw-Hill Ryerson, found that hybrid learning -- a combination of traditional lectures with online learning features -- is now the norm on campuses. In 2003, 59% of faculty taught exclusively face to face. This year, that number has dropped to 31%, the national survey of Canadian universities shows. The trend is borne out on campuses across the country. At the University of Saskatchewan, the number of courses that use a Web portal to distribute course content and assignments has nearly doubled in the last year, from 5,500 to 9,758. At peak times, more than 15,000 people log into the system a day. Read More.. (http://www.canada.com/topics/lifestyle/unversityguide/story.html?id=9972a26e-1fdb-4038-898a-5ce8ba72e980&k=53386) |