by Courtney Buell, edcetera
Online courses are here to stay, but they present real challenges for today’s learners. In a traditional classroom, distraction is a significant problem, but it’s difficult to sit through an entire lecture without absorbing at least part of the lesson. Online, it’s easy for a student to sit down with the intention of completing a course module or assignment and realize two hours (and ten YouTube videos) later that they didn’t get anything done. Students raised in the fast-paced, multi-tasking, distraction-prone digital age have more access to learning than ever before — but when education is conducted online, next to entertainment and 24-hour updates, students often have a hard time focusing long enough to really learn.
http://edcetera.rafter.com/fighting-distraction-in-online-courses/
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