The Common Sense Census: Key Findings

How much time does your average teen or tween spend on media? Find out how many hours and other key information about their media habits from this video infographic about The Common Sense Census: Media Use by Tweens and Teens. This national study offers a comprehensive look at how kids age 8 to 18 use media and technology.

Tweens, Teens, and Screens: What Our New Research Uncovers

What happens when your brain doesn't sleep?

Digital University Research

http://linkresearchlab.org/PreparingDigitalUniversity.pdf

The articles presented in this report provide an overview of research literature in:

Distance education
Blended learning
Online learning
Credentialing
MOOC research
Future learning technology infrastructures

Allow pupils to use Google in exams

Allow pupils to use Google in GCSE exams, says academic

A Harvard physics professor says schoolchildren must be allowed to access the internet and talk to friends in the exams hall to reflect the conditions seen in the workplace

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Lectures Aren't Just Boring, They're Ineffective - Study Findings

The studies analyzed here document that active learning leads to increases in examination performance that would raise average grades by a half a letter, and that failure rates under traditional lecturing increase by 55% over the rates observed under active learning...

...To weigh the evidence, Freeman and a group of colleagues analyzed 225 studies of undergraduate STEM teaching methods. The meta-analysis, published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concluded that teaching approaches that turned students into active participants rather than passive listeners reduced failure rates and boosted scores on exams by almost one-half a standard deviation. “The change in the failure rates is whopping,” Freeman says. And the exam improvement—about 6%—could, for example, “bump [a student’s] grades from a B– to a B.”