Politicians from Jeb Bush to President Obama like to hype the
revolutionary power and cost-effectiveness of digital learning, but a new study suggests, in many cases, it is neither more powerful nor cheaper than old-fashioned teaching.
Billions of public dollars have been directed toward digital learning initiatives in recent years, and the report from the National Education Policy Center,
a research institute at the University of Colorado, found that they
rarely improved outcomes. When they did, they cost more money, not less.
"On
the whole, it is very difficult to have faith in the path we're going
down," says Noel Enyedy, a researcher at UCLA who performed the
analysis.
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