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Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Thursday, September 30, 2004
UK Study: Computers 'do not boost learning' - Justin Parkinson, BBC

Efforts to promote "lifelong learning" using computers have done little to increase the number of adults in education, a survey says. People were more likely to use the internet for hobbies such as music-making and compiling a family tree, research at Cardiff University found. Background had more bearing than online access on whether people studied. Some 1,001 people were interviewed in Cardiff, Bath, Somerset, Blaenau Gwent and the Forest of Dean.


 



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