Thursday 5 May 2016

Game Changer? First-Ever Online Social Gaming Platform for Education

by Tom Lindsay, Forbes

Online education has been and continues to be the subject of hot debate. On the one hand, the U.S. Department of Education’s analysis of 44 separate studies of online education found its learning outcomes to be as good and—in its “hybrid” form, which combines online with traditional learning—at times superior to traditional education. I should confess that, as someone who taught Plato and Aristotle at the university level for two decades, I approached the subject of online education with similar reservations. But my own experience over the past three academic years teaching political philosophy in a doctoral-level, fully-accredited program has overcome most of my concerns.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomlindsay/2016/04/28/game-changer-first-ever-online-social-gaming-platform-for-education/#7bae8c405d50

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from Educational Technology http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/et/?p=15725

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