Monday, August 9, 2010

Understanding statistics

Need help with statistics? Most students do and usually need to understand which statistics to use. I think the following Web site is good if you need an overview. Try it.

http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/elementary-concepts-in-statistics/?button=1

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Survey Reports by Sloan

A series of survey reports published by Sloan Consortium, an organisation committed to quality online learning. See list below:

http://www.sloanconsortium.org/publications/freedownloads

Predictors of success for adult online learners

Good article if only to catch the review of literature on how adult learners do online in comparison with younger, more net savvy learners, or so they say. For those of you who are looking for research topics, you may get an idea or two after reading this...see below:

http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=research&article=10-1


You may also read on the "best practices" to get more ideas:
http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=best_practices