Online Learning Update

February 7, 2017

UTA works with Boeing, NASA, MIT to improve online students’ completion rates

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:02 am

by University of Texas Arlington

Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington are working with Boeing, NASA and Massachusetts Institute of Technology to better understand the role that social networks play in the completion rates and academic performance of students taking online courses. “Learning online is exploding in popularity, as is the research evaluating how to best learn with technology,” said George Siemens, executive director of UTA’s Learning Innovation and Networked Knowledge Research Lab and principal investigator of the study. “This project with LINK Research Lab will examine how social networks contribute to student success.”

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-01/uota-uww011917.php

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