{"id":39090,"date":"2013-04-16T11:59:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T15:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=39090"},"modified":"2013-04-16T14:53:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T18:53:47","slug":"harvard-researchers-frequent-tests-increase-retention-in-online-learning-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/04\/16\/harvard-researchers-frequent-tests-increase-retention-in-online-learning-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard researchers: frequent tests increase retention in online learning [Winner]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elearningindustry.com\/harvard-researchers-frequent-tests-increase-retention-in-online-learning\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Harvard researchers: frequent tests increase retention in online learning<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from elearningindustry.com by Andrew Winner<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A pair of researchers at Harvard University think they&#8217;ve got part of the answer. In a study run by Daniel Schacter, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Psychology, and Karl Szpunar, a postdoctoral fellow in psychology, they found that <strong>interspersing short quizzes<\/strong> into <strong>online learning<\/strong> course can dramatically <strong>increase student retention<\/strong> of material.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard researchers: frequent tests increase retention in online learning &#8212; from elearningindustry.com by Andrew Winner Excerpt: A pair of researchers at Harvard University think they&#8217;ve got part of the answer. In a study run by Daniel Schacter, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Psychology, and Karl Szpunar, a postdoctoral fellow in psychology, they found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,119,78,62,173],"tags":[629,608,601,658],"class_list":["post-39090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessment","category-instructional-design","category-memory","category-online-learning","category-pedagogy","tag-instructional-design","tag-memory","tag-online-learning","tag-pedagogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39090"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39094,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39090\/revisions\/39094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}