UBC Instructor David Gilbert is currently working on a BCcampus-funded project to add interactive activities to the popular open logic textbook forall x using an open Haskell framework called Carnap.

It might also limit the extracurricular activities the child can participate in, especially if they’re expected to do homework every night. Part of the issue is that children, like adults, perform ...

Homework’s role in education is being reexamined. Once essential, it now raises questions about equity, effectiveness, and ...

As we run out the door to those activities, our dog looks at us longingly with his leash in his mouth, so we try to squeeze in walks with him. All of that leaves very little time for homework.

As students return to school, some families are pushing for no homework for their kids saying there's no evidence that homework helps academic achievement. Critics say excessive homework can hurt ...

Not banned just appropriate. My son's school is always telling us to read with our kids as much as possible & then they send a list of activities related to the theme for the term. Kids pick 3/4 ...

By the time I pick him up from after school activities is past 5 p.m. After dinner he tackles his school work, but we are both often up past bedtime.

BCcampus awards five open education development grants as part of the Open Homework Systems (OHS) project. The grants will be used to add H5P interactive formative assessment activities to five ...

The issue of assigning homework is controversial in terms of its purpose, what to assign, the amount of time needed to complete it, parental involvement, its actual affect on learning and achievement, ...

The right kind of homework will teach rather than bore kids. Nov. 20, 2009— -- The Milley children of Calgary, Alberta, will never have to do homework again thanks to a unique legal contract ...

This study investigated a middle-grades mathematics homework intervention designed to increase family involvement in homework. The participants were 74 sixth-grade students and their families from a ...

We are all crazy busy. We're all juggling jobs, kids, homework, activities. The list goes on and on. But the thing is that physical activity is really important to your health. So let's talk about ...