Sage Adams

“[Second Life] experiences can provide opportunities for teachers to observe and assess students’ understanding of concepts based on their performance.” – Weusijana, Svihla, Gawel, and Bransford.
There seems to me three major obstacles to using Second Life successfully for education:
1. Administrators (and many faculty) think the virtual environment should ‘resemble’ the classroom environment.
2. Most people who [...]

What makes students complete their schooling? Why do students drop out during or after the first year of college? These are questions of persistence. There is not one reason why students stop their educations; generally speaking the reasons are as varied as the students themselves. However when you get down to particulars it appears – [...]