Online education is a turn-off

25th July 2003, 1:00am

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Online education is a turn-off

https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/online-education-turn
FAMILIES make little use of educational websites, partly because mothers see them as a form of cheating and children would rather play computer games, according to a new report. Researchers sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council found the websites children did visit tended to be “little more than books in digital form”. “Learning online: e-learning and the domestic market” is at www.regard.ac.uk

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