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Lecture Recording: What does research say about its effect on attendance?

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Based on media richness theory, it has been found that students will opt for face-to-face lectures when they think the content is going to be difficult (Bassili, 2008). Employers want graduates who have learned to effectively manage their time, so the choice of attendance is on the student’s shoulders (Tymon, 2013). Goebel, A.

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Spotlight on Alternative Assessment Methods: ‘A little bit digitalised?’ Developing practice with online exams

Teaching Matters Online Learning

The first was migration , whereby exams are expected to transition from pen-and-paper to computer-based delivery largely unaltered, resulting in improvements in efficiency and the student experience. The second was transformation , whereby rapid technological changes require radical change in examination practices. Medlin, J.

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It’s the metrics, not the Matrix, part 3: Degenerative AI

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Social media metrics further entrench this commodification, transforming intellectual achievements into social capital. So soon as that shortening becomes compulsory, machinery becomes in the hands of capital the objective means, systematically employed for squeezing out more labour in a given time” (Marx 2013: 285).

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EdTech Malaise: “He Not Busy Born is Busy Dying”

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With changes like major demographic student switches, huge swathes of the economy being reconfigured, and profoundly impactful technologies popping up seemingly out of nowhere, companies need time to plan and implement appropriately significant responses. And they have published this information for all the world to see.

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