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Research shows everyone does worse with online learning

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Recent research published by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) found that, compared to traditional classes, students tended to perform worse academically in  online classes — suggesting that students had “difficulty adapting” to online learning. Perhaps even more startling, students of color and men fared the worst. “Specifically, we found that males,…

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Online universities blossom in Asia

Students prepare for an exam in front of their computers at Kuala Lumpur-based Asia e University (AeU) in August 2012 via AFP

Thousands of kilometers from Kuala Lumpur in Cameroon, doctoral student Michael Nkwenti Ndongfack attends his Open University Malaysia classes online and hopes to defend his final thesis by Skype. A government worker, Ndongfack could not find the instructional design and technology course he wanted in his own country, so is…

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