The question of whether students learn better online or in a classroom setting is a multifaceted debate, encompassing considerations of individual learning styles, access to resources, social ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series on the practical takeaways from research. The times have dictated school closings and the rapid expansion of online education. Can online lessons replace ...

Johan Ferreira receives funding from the Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, based at the University of the Witwatersrand, towards this Scholarship of Learning and Teaching ...

Ministry of Education statistics from 2021 underscored this trend, revealing that over 25 million individuals overseas were engaged in learning Chinese at the time. Notably, Duolingo had over 12.9 ...

Statistics professor Johan Ferreira was feeling overwhelmed by the amount of "screen time" involved in online learning in 2021. He imagined students must be feeling the same way, and wondered what he ...

As the pandemic took over the world within the first few months of 2020, most countries adopted the policy of lockdown. Not being prepared for such a drastic change in our way of life, the first few ...

The World Bank and UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) joined in a new partnership to help countries strengthen their learning assessment systems, better monitor what students are learning in ...

An analysis of newly available federal data shows that a far larger proportion of college students take at least one fully online course than was previously understood. The analysis, first conducted ...