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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Lopez, Salvador; Patron, Hilde – Journal of Educators Online, 2012
According to Howard Gardner, Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard University, intelligence of humans cannot be measured with a single factor such as the IQ level. Instead, he and others have suggested that humans have different types of intelligence. This paper examines whether students registered in online or mostly online courses have…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Statistics, Multiple Intelligences, Teaching Styles
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Patron, Hilde; Lopez, Salvador – Journal of Educators Online, 2011
This paper examines how student effort, consistency, motivation, and marginal learning, influence student grades in an online course. We use data from eleven Microeconomics courses taught online for a total of 212 students. Our findings show that consistency, or less time variation, is a statistically significant explanatory variable, whereas…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Microeconomics, Online Courses, Student Motivation