Report after report have revealed some of the inadequacies of massive open online courses: low completion rates, low engagement, inability to have impact with those who need education the most. So far, MOOCs have not lived up to the hype.
Teachers finding the most success are good at creatively connecting the game back to the curriculum, while allowing it to maintain the qualities of a good game.
Jessica Lahey writes about a Cornell professor who takes special pride in teaching non-math majors to appreciate numbers. He does it with an inquiry-based, hands-on approach that would likely work for kids learning math for the first time too.
Lovisa Bergdahl, lektor i pedagogik på Södertörns högskola, har tillsammans med två kollegor beviljats 5,9 miljoner kronor av Vetenskapsrådet för det fyraåriga forskningsprojektet "Levda värden: en pedagogisk-filosofisk grundläggning av skolans värdegrundsarbete".
Playing an action video game “can virtually eliminate” the gender difference in a basic capacity researchers call spatial attention, while at the same time reducing the gender difference in the ability to mentally rotate objects, a higher-level spatial skill.
Nu har en ny typ av läxhjälp för elever i Tranemo. Via internet har de nu möjlighet att chatta med blivande mattelärare från olika universitet, projektet drivs av kommunen med hjälp av Nexans.