Online Learning as a Panacea for Dealing with School Truancy

School refusal and truancy.

Truancy—Or School Phobia?

The 1959 Inter-Clinic Conference (which is restricted to Child Guidance Clinic personnel) had as its topic the problems of Truancy and School Phobia. In addition to its considerable professional value to the participants, this Conference revealed a number of other important aspects of the problem. It showed that this topic had considerable "news value" to the lay public : it emphasised how clos...

Dealing with Multiple Classes in Online Class Imbalance Learning

Online class imbalance learning deals with data streams having very skewed class distributions in a timely fashion. Although a few methods have been proposed to handle such problems, most of them focus on two-class cases. Multi-class imbalance imposes additional challenges in learning. This paper studies the combined challenges posed by multiclass imbalance and online learning, and aims at a mo...

Contemporary e-Learning as Panacea for Large-scale Software Training

Large organizations renew their core business software with some regularity, resulting in serious challenges for in-company training officers. Especially when large numbers of employees need to be trained to use updated software on short notice, traditional face-to-face training methods fall short. Contemporary elearning is regarded a solution for such short-term and large-scale training. This ...

Online Learning in a Rural School Setting

Background: Online learning is a growing delivery model for education; however, there exists a void in the literature regarding the adoption of online learning models in rural K-12 school systems. Purpose: To provide pertinent data to the rural school administrator so that they may make an informed decision in regards to the potential implementation of asynchronous online learning within their ...