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posted by janrinok on Wednesday May 06 2015, @06:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the your-tax-dollars-at-work dept.

AlterNet reports

Online instruction at community colleges isn't working--yet policymakers are continuing to fund programs to expand online courses at these schools, which primarily serve low-income minority students, and community college administrators are planning to offer more and more of them.

The latest salvo comes from researchers at the University of California-Davis, who found that community college students throughout California were 11 percent less likely to finish and pass a course if they opted to take the online version instead of the traditional face-to-face version of the same class. The still-unpublished paper, entitled Online Course-taking and Student Outcomes in California Community Colleges, was presented on April 18, 2015, at the American Educational Research Association's annual conference in Chicago.

[...]Community colleges [educate 45 percent of the nation's undergraduates] and [that sector] is under fire for low graduation rates.

[...]Despite the flexibility, it appears that many students find it hard to manage their time to complete the lectures and coursework throughout an entire semester.

[...]These are very different results from what researchers are finding for students at four-year colleges.

 
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 06 2015, @06:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 06 2015, @06:49PM (#179618)

    Trying to imagine learning as a resource to be consumed, as these legislators are doing, suggests they've never really learned anything.

    Imagine that.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday May 06 2015, @08:20PM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Wednesday May 06 2015, @08:20PM (#179655) Homepage
    Imaginary learning is completely orthogonal to real learning.
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    Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
    • (Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Wednesday May 06 2015, @08:37PM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday May 06 2015, @08:37PM (#179666) Journal

      But if you combine real and imaginary learning, things get really complex!

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      The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
      • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday May 06 2015, @08:51PM

        by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Wednesday May 06 2015, @08:51PM (#179671) Homepage
        You want an argument? Of what magnitude?
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        Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves