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[quote=Anonymous]Until a few years ago many Ivy League school resisted offering online classes for various reasons including that studies has shown that online learning was less effective than traditional classroom learning.  Now most if all offer online courses and degrees!

Very interesting that article that sites multiple studies from both sides of the debate.

"Wolf is optimistic that we can learn to navigate online reading just as deeply as we once did print—if we go about it with the necessary thoughtfulness. In a new study, the introduction of an interactive annotation component helped improve comprehension and reading strategy use in a group of fifth graders. It turns out that they could read deeply. They just had to be taught how."

[http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/being-a-better-online-reader]

"As children now spend considerable time reading electronic media, digital reading skills and good reading comprehension are essential. However, many studies agree that screen-based reading leads to shallow reading, short attention spans, and poor comprehension. Therefore, this work presents a collaborative reading annotation system with a reading annotation and interactive discussion scaffold (CRAS-RAIDS) for improving reading performance in collaborative digital reading environments. This study used a quasi-experimental design. Fifty-three Grade 5 students were recruited from two classes of an elementary school in Taoyuan County, Taiwan. One class was randomly designated the experimental group used the proposed CRAS-RAIDS support for collaborative reading. The other class was designated the control group and used the traditional paper-based reading annotation method and face-to-face discussions. The two groups were then compared in terms of reading attitude, reading comprehension, and use of reading strategy in an active reading context. Analytical results show that the experimental group significantly outperformed the control group in direct and explicit comprehension, inferential comprehension performance, and use of reading strategy. Moreover, the experimental group, but not the control group, had a significantly improved reading attitude in the total dimensions and in the behavioral and affective sub-dimensions. Additionally, the experimental group showed positive interest and high learning satisfaction."

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131514000955

DCI may just be on the forefront of shift in perspective and how our brains will process information in the future.  This is a new note-taking skills that children in the future will acquire at a younger age.  Maybe DCI parents/school should invest is the orange glasses for those who are concerned about potential health risk (ie ey strain and sleep patterns
).

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/can-orange-glasses-help-you-sleep-better/?_r=0[][/quote]

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