Out of sight but not out of mind in the virtual world - FT.com:
"It is more than three years since Dani McKinney, a psychologist at the State University of New York in Fredonia, found that students retained significantly more from a downloaded podcast of a lecture than those who attended the lecture in person.
His findings focused discussions about online learning less on its ability to meet the rising tide of demand for mass tertiary education in an affordable way and more on a shocking heresy: that online delivery methods might be more effective than real face-time between a professor and his class."
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