With "performance" defined, it's easier to see the pathway for growth in computer-based education.
From the 1980s, when computer-based education started to be delivered through CD-ROMs, e-learning has boomed, paving the way for several private players and government agencies which create and deliver e-learning systems today.
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"Computer-aided education -- not a breakthrough, " he yawns.
And Adam McNichol - one of the few teaching this subject who has a computer science degree - told us the whole education system needed to change, so that the value of the subject was recognised.
Which is why education has become so important in the computer age--why Forbes has run three cover stories on education in as many years.
Give each child a computer with Internet access, and education-social-networking.
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Thus the cataract operations that will allow the recipients to return to work, and the digital education that will create a generation of computer-savvy Mexican youth.
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He first met Mr Jobs at Cornell University when he was in charge of NeXT Inc, a closely watched start-up that in 1988 introduced a desktop computer targeted at the education market.
Ellison also noted that a paper option was important because many students in adult education classes lack the skills needed to take a computer-based test and that it will take time to beef up the courses to add that training.
Professor Charles Hoare, Fellow of the Royal Society, has been awarded a knighthood for services to education and computer science, while Professor Martin Harris, CBE, Vice-chancellor of Manchester University, has received a knighthood for his services to higher education.
Unlike regular degree programs, which provide a macro education on a general topic (say, Computer Science), badges certify micro-based competency in a very specific skill (say, JavaScript).
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L.A., and show greater improvement, than students majoring in non-liberal-arts fields such as business, education and social work, communications, engineering and computer science, and health.
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