Lecture halls and classrooms are expensive, and competition between departments for space is fierce.
What is more, our implementation based on off-the-shelf hardware has proven that deploying such an application in schools does not require expensive hardware or dedicated classrooms.
Media courses do have different levels of expenses - this is precisely what we asked for... Media covers classroom taught areas and expensive equipment that is more expensive than other courses," he said.
As government has turned ever more avidly to industry to help pay for expensive improvements in the science classroom, the need to emphasize the link between a well-rounded science education and tomorrow's techie work force has grown accordingly.
This new generation of educational platforms offer alternatives to expensive degrees programs and physical classrooms in the hopes of ushering in Education 2.0 by emphasizing interactive, personalized and skill-based learning.
It's hard to imagine any private school breaking its budget to acquire an expensive building that wasn't meant for classrooms.
They are worried that the new setup will divert cash from classrooms, limit the availability of "expensive" subjects such as music and science and end the public service vocation of teachers.
Randomization into treatment groups might be logistically difficult or even impossible (e.g., adding additional full-time teachers to treatment classes), unethical (e.g., withholding free lunch from needy children), or prohibitively expensive (e.g., large-scale redesign of classrooms).
These expensive toys are difficult to use in classrooms and require extensive teacher training....But think of your own experience: can you recall even one educational filmstrip of decades past?
Science subjects, with many more classroom hours and with much more expensive equipment, are going to cost much more than arts subjects.
