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PAYT Bulletin: Winter 2003
The PAYT Bulletin is designed to help solid waste planners and others get the latest pay-as-you-throw news and events. Use the links below to read articles from the Winter 2003 issue. To review other issues of the Bulletin, use the links on the right side of this page.
Multipurpose Righted
- Could PAYT Offer Hope For New York City's Recycling Program? (Winter 2003)
- PAYT Helps Cities Protect Climate (Summer 2002)
- Large Cities and PAYT (Winter 2002)
- Bigger, Older, Wiser: (Summer 2001)
- Maine Turns to PAYT (Spring 2001)
- State and City Profiles (Summer 2000)
- PAYT From Sea to Shining Sea (Winter 2000)
- PAYT Bulletin Archives
- Could PAYT Offer Hope for New York City's Recycling Program?
- PAYT Programs Reduce Waste, Reason Study Documents
- European Union Promotes PAYT Using Innovative Technologies
- City's Recycling Rate Skyrockets, Thanks to PAYT
Could PAYT Offer Hope for New York City's Recycling Program?
In the city that never sleeps, waste production never ends. More than 7.5 million people live in New York City, and residents produce an average of 14,000 tons of trash each day. According to action group NYC WasteLe$$, city residents dispose of enough paper bags each year to line the Brooklyn Bridge 170,000 times and enough plastic grocery bags to line the Lincoln Tunnel 80,000 times.
With budget-related cutbacks putting New York City's recycling program in jeopardy, some observers have pointed out that PAYT could be a viable alternative or supplement to tax-funded trash collection, reducing the amount of waste that needs to be managed while potentially generating revenue. While waste management officials face implementation challenges associated with PAYT in a big city like New York, PAYT could be an important part of a longer-term solution.
And New York City's recycling programs is facing its biggest challenge to date. In 1993, New York initiated the largest citywide curbside recycling program in the United States, collecting mixed paper, plastics, metals, and glass from all of the city's 3 million households. In July 2002, however, as a result of a budget crisis, the Mayor and New York City Department of Sanitation (DOS) officials suspended plastics and glass recycling until they can be made more cost-effective.
Steve Hammer, a waste management expert and founder of New York City-based Hammer Environmental Consulting, recommends that "As it evaluates recycling, the city should also consider a PAYT program as a natural complement."
New York City residents currently pay for DOS to collect trash and recyclables through their property tax, a flat indirect charge that creates the perception that waste collection is "free." City residents can put as much garbage as they want on the curb for DOS to collect, and some communities require the department to provide hauling services two or three times each week. Prior to cutting back recycling services, New York spent almost $1 billion per year on trash and recyclables collection.
Implementing PAYT in New York City could shift the cost of waste collection directly to residents by requiring them to pay based on how much trash they throw away. Currently, more than 5,000 communities in the United States have PAYT programs, and studies show that these programs typically reduce waste while saving municipal governments money. Most of these communities, however, are small, rural or suburban cities and towns that can more easily handle many of the administrative requirements of a PAYT program. Larger cities face certain challenges that make PAYT more difficult to implement, including how to bill residents of large multi-tenant buildings, how to decide on collection methods and container types, and how to avoid overburdening low-income households. New York City can learn from other large cities' successes with PAYT.
When Many Act as One: The Multi-Tenant Issue
Operating collection and payment systems in large apartment buildings is one of the biggest issues New York City would have to resolve to implement PAYT. About 57 percent of the city's residents live in large, multi-tenant buildings (buildings with 10 units or more) that usually have a centralized trash collection point. Therefore, determining who is throwing away how much and billing tenants appropriately can be a difficult task.
According to Barbara Stevens, president of Ecodata, Inc. consulting group, most high-rise buildings in New York City have garbage shoots where residents dump bags of trash. These individual bags are bundled up into larger bags by the superintendent and carted to the curb.
"Throwing away garbage in multi-tenant buildings is entirely anonymous," she said. "A PAYT program would be very difficult to enforce."
In addition, most big cities require landlords of multi-tenant buildings to contract with private haulers for trash collection. Landlords then pass trash removal costs onto residents as part of the rent. A PAYT program is more difficult to run in a multi-tenant building because generally the landlord and not the tenants receive any monetary savings. San Francisco, California, and Austin, Texas, are two cities with PAYT programs that simply do not offer PAYT service to multi-tenant buildings.
In New York, the city provides collection services to multi-tenant buildings. Neither landlords nor tenants pay a direct cost, no matter how much waste they produce. Requiring these buildings to contract with private haulers would require tenants to pay a direct cost for trash collection, but would not create the incentive to reduce it. In addition, landlords of some multi-tenant buildings in New York would have to find a way to pass on costs to tenants of the 1.25 million complexes subject to rent control.
"PAYT could work in multi-tenant buildings if the city can provide a monetary incentive to landlords to encourage tenants to reduce waste," Stevens said. "Offer them economic bonuses if they reduce trash in their buildings, then have them split the funds with the tenants' association."
The Container Quandary: Cans, Bags, or
Deciding on the type of container to collect trash also poses issues in large cities like New York. The usual pros and cons surrounding the use of cans, bags, or tags/stickers would all apply, including problems with pest and odor control, accessibility from crowded streets, durability, and theft.
Using large cans on wheels and small cans without wheels worked best for San Francisco's collection crews because they could wheel the heavier cans to a truck for automatic emptying and empty the smaller ones by hand. Residents usually favor the cans because they reduce the risk of vermin, odors, and associated diseases that can come when trash sits out on the street. According to Hammer, bags or tags might be the best choices for containers in New York City as they would place the cost burden directly on residents, eliminating the need for a billing system and bypassing the rent control issue.
Money Matters: Billing and Rate Setting
New York City would have to carefully consider options for billing and rate setting based on the type of collection container it chooses and the amount of revenue it wants to earn from the program. Billing enforcement also would be an issue, as the city could not refuse to collect trash if tenants didn't pay, because of health concerns.
To address this, some cities tie trash bills to other municipal utility bills. In Seattle, Washington, for example, water and trash collection charges appear on the same bill, and if residents pay their water bill but not their trash bill, the money is applied to the trash bill, and water can eventually be cut off for non-payment.
New York also would have to evaluate rate-setting options to avoid overburdening its low- and fixed-income households. Some cities have adopted subsidy programs to help low-income customers pay their bills. Austin, for example, is one of the larger cities to successfully implement a subsidy program, and it also offers free waste audits to help participating residents reduce the amount of trash they generate.
On the Right Track: Illegal Dumping
Illegal dumping is one issue that New York might be able to handle more readily than other PAYT cities. Preliminary studies suggest that fears of increased illegal dumping caused by PAYT are unwarranted. New York City, however, already has an advantage in combating illegal dumping if it does become a problemDOS has an enforcement unit of 173 uniformed workers that makes sure residents adhere to waste collection rules. The department also has experience conducting public education campaigns, which could be used to help the public accept PAYT regulations.
"PAYT is a saleable message because it puts trash collection costs in tenants' control," Hammer said. "It also can be presented as a source of valuable information; knowing the impacts of what you throw away makes you a better, more informed consumer."
Overcoming Obstacles
Stevens believes PAYT could work if the city offered the program to residential buildings only and defined residential multi-tenant buildings as those with six or fewer units.
"Manhattan would be limited, but Staten Island, Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx all have lots of single-family homes and could make PAYT work," she said.
According to Hammer, all the issues with PAYT in New York City can be resolved if officials are willing to spend time and resources up front to develop and implement a program. He believes the city's biggest hurdle at this point is to find a way to re-establish the full recycling programPAYT will not work if residents don't have legal alternatives to throwing away waste. Hammer believes city officials will first have to realize that they shouldn't dismiss PAYT because it is challenging.
"Everything is harder in New York," he said. "Anything you do will be harder here than in other cities, but PAYT can work if the mayor and DOS are willing to think outside of conventional management practices."
PAYT Programs Reduce Waste, Reason Study Documents
PAYT waste and recyclables collection programs result in a 17 percent drop in garbage tonnage, with a significant increase in both recycling and source reduction, according to a new study published by the Reason Foundation, a Los Angeles-based public policy think tank.
"Recycling programs only encourage recycling," said Dr. Kenneth Green, the study's project director and chief scientist at the Reason Foundation. "Pay-As-You-Throw programs encourage recycling, composting, and source reductionand source reduction is the cheapest waste management strategy."
The study, released in July, is in a question-and-answer format and addresses the strengths and weaknesses of bag, can, sticker, and hybrid variable-rates programs; how these programs promote source reduction and recycling; and how to implement a PAYT program successfully.
The study found that variable-rate pricing is the most effective way to involve communities in source reduction and recycling programs. Variable-rate programs currently are available to approximately 20 percent of the country's population and exist in all but four states. According to the report, about 1.3 million tons of waste is source-reduced annually by variable-rate communities.
These results suggest that towns with PAYT programs may see reductions in tons disposed of around 16 percent, divided equally among discarded materials that are recycled, composted, or avoided entirely through source reduction.
In addition, illegal dumpingwhich towns fear will increase if they start up a variable-rates programis not the large problem it is often thought to be, the study found. In fact, a study by Skumatz Economic Research Associates found that residential waste is not a large component of illegally dumped materials. The largest components of illegally dumped materials are construction and demolition debris (25 percent) and brush (nearly 40 percent).
Most of the residential waste that is illegally dumped is bulky waste such as mattresses, sofas, and large appliances. Communities have implemented bulky waste collection days to increase the success of variable rates programs and minimize the incentives to illegally dump materials.
As far as whether the programs are difficult to administer, anecdotal evidence from many towns indicated that in most cases, after an initial effort to education customers about variable rates, the programs are readily accepted. Cities looking to implement PAYT programs can learn a lot from the work other cities have done, but they also must address the specific concerns of their own residents to be successful. Tailored approaches for large families and low-income customers help increase customer acceptance of the program.
For a copy of the study, visit http://www.reason.org/studies/show/126704.html , or call the Reason Foundation at 310 391-2245.
European Union Promotes PAYT Using Innovative Technologies
PAYT programs have proven effective in encouraging waste reduction in more than 5,000 communities across the United Statesand they are becoming increasingly popular across the ocean as well. Many European Union countries, especially Germany, Austria, Sweden, Finland, and the Netherlands, are experimenting with some version of PAYT.
Several major European cities have successfully implemented programs charging residents for waste collection services based upon the volume or weight of waste discarded. This has encouraged people to think twice before they toss and to find alternative ways to dispose of waste, such as recycling and composting. Other EU countries, such as Denmark, France, Ireland, and Italy, are rapidly developing PAYT programs, and the Czech Republic, Spain, and Greece are showing increasing interest in PAYT as well.
PAYT programs are one part of the EU's overarching effort to support innovative ways to progress socially, economically, and technologically, while preserving each country's culture and protecting the environment. EU officials have set policy objectives to increase awareness of each individual's responsibility to help reduce waste in its efforts to promote sustainable development.
"In the past, environmental protection and social or cultural development have too often been treated as alternatives to productivity and competitiveness," said Phillippe Busquin, the European Commissioner for Research. Now, driven by the policy objective of sustainable development, the EU is "finding innovative, win-win' solutions," Busquin added, which allow it to "meet social aspirations and preserve cultural values at a competitive cost, without damaging the environment."
PAYT is one of these solutions. Waste reduction is particularly important in Europe's major cities, where nearly 80 percent of the population dwells. Many residents in densely-populated European cities live in large, multi-unit apartment buildings, not single-family homes. Just as in the United States, tenants in multi-unit residences in Europe discard their waste in large, common bins. Keeping track of how much each individual throws away is difficult, and so the incentive for tenants to reduce their waste is not built in. Because resources are diminishing, EU cities are coming up with innovative and successful ideas to promote waste reduction principles through PAYT that U.S. cities could learn from.
Technology Promoting PAYT
In response to the demand of sustainable development, a few German companies have developed sophisticated billing technologies that keep track of the waste individuals throw away. These technologies can make implementing a PAYT program easier, by inspiring residents to take individual responsibility when disposing of waste.
Two German manufacturing companiesThe SULO Group , near Hannover, and WESOMA GmbH , in Zwickauhave devised special air-lock waste containers that only tenants can access, using a personal access card. These containers harbor electronic data carriers that automatically measure the amount of waste thrown away by each tenant, tracking the user, date, and time waste was deposited. Each month, tenants receive bills reflecting the amount of waste they deposited and the corresponding amount due. In some cases, the access card works like a Smart Cardtenants must periodically add money to the card, which is automatically deducted each time waste is deposited.
Along with this sophisticated identification and weighing equipment is equally innovative software technology. Germany's Envicomp Systems created the Envicomp Modular System (EMS)domestic refuse software that processes the data generated by the identification and weighing systems. This software was specifically developed for the billing between disposal companies and municipalities. Allowing for friction-free processing for disposal and administration processes, EMS provides efficient bin management, exact registration of materials and their assignment by cost center, optimized route planning, targeted evaluations and statistics, and integrated billing systems that include a payment reminder function.
According to a "Key Findings" report by the Fifth Framework, a program that initiates European Community research, residents of apartment complexes in Germany, Austria, Sweden, Finland, and the Netherlands have been pleased with these new technologies that promote PAYT because they allow for fairer billing and more control over individual costs. Tenants pay for what they throw away, much like paying their electricity or water bills. They become more conscious of the items they dispose of and tend to follow the methods of reducing, reusing, recycling, and composting more frequently.
City's Recycling Rate Skyrockets, Thanks to PAYT
A PAYT program can drastically improve a city's recycling rate. The city of Diamond Bar, California, saw its recycling rate jump from 12 percent in 2000 to 47 percent in 2001, after it began a PAYT program in November 2000. The program also helped the city decrease waste generation by 4 percent, despite a population increase, and, within 4 months of implementation, the city had a 50 percent diversion rate in the residential sector.
Diamond Bar, located 30 miles east of Los Angeles with a population of nearly 57,000, has reaped the rewards of increased waste diversion, a cleaner appearance, and public recognition of its efforts. Among the more than 80 communities that make up Los Angeles County, Diamond Bar is one of about a dozen with a PAYT program.
Educating residents and providing incentives for recycling were keys to Diamond Bar's success. The city wanted not only to run a successful recycling and waste diversion program, but also wanted to change the waste disposal habits of its residents, said Michael Huls, the city's contract environmental services coordinator. As a result, the city made the residents the number-one priority in the planning and implementation process.
Diamond Bar encouraged the use of smaller waste containers by rewarding residents for their recycling efforts. The city does not charge a cart exchange fee for residents who reduce the size of their carts (which come in 25-, 64-, and 96-gallon sizes), and residents who request only one cart do not have to pay the surcharge imposed on residents who request more than one cart. The surcharge for additional containers always defaults to the cost of the larger of the two containers to discourage people from requesting smaller carts and then paying only a small surcharge for a second, larger container.
To promote grasscycling and composting, the city gives a yearly $36 collection discount to residents who do not dispose of yard trimmings and attend a quarterly workshop. The workshops are open to all residents of Los Angeles County, but only Diamond Bar residents are eligible to receive a free compost container and discount. About 250 residents currently receive the discount, and an estimated 2,600 residents grasscycle and compost at home. The workshops are a joint venture of the Los Angeles County Public Works Department, which provides an instructor and free publicity, and the city of Diamond Bar, which provides the facilities.
A driving force behind the city's PAYT program is integrating solid waste collection and recycling to create an effective, long-lasting program that both city officials and the community will embrace. "Our variable-rate program not only gave the community a cleaner appearance, but it also reduced the cost of collection, minimized litter problems, encouraged waste prevention, increased recycling, and made residents more aware of what they can do," Huls said.
To improve the cost-effectiveness of the program, all collection vehicles are equipped with an automated pickup system, allowing for one-person crews (see PAYT Bulletin, "Austin Becomes Fully Automated," Summer 2001). A loading device picks up and empties containers, and returns them to the curb. As contents spill into the side-loading mechanism, the driver inspects and identifies contaminants. The device accommodates a wide range of containers, including the three offered in the city's program.
According to Huls, the reaction and feedback to the program from both businesses and residents has been positive. Although some residents eyed the program with caution initially, "the diversion rates and responses show that people are excited about the program," Huls said. During the planning phase, the city avoided potential pitfalls by looking at what has and has not worked in other programs. Most important, Huls said, is that "people will want toand willdo the right thing when they are included in the planning process from the beginning."
The increase in recycling and diversion earned the city a first-place, statewide award "California's City of Environmental Excellence" from Keep California Beautiful, and another first-place award from the California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) as "Best New Household Hazardous Waste Program in California for 2001." CIWMB also will recognize the city this year (along with 200 other California cities) for meeting the state's 50 percent diversion goal.


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Is E-Learning competitive enough if compared to Class Room learning?
With so many modules promoting E Learning / E Studies hitting India and the world, the question is whether this platform will be as beneficial as the old class room method.
Jan 19 2012: I have to respectfully disagree with the comments soo far on this thread. I not only believe that edutech will work but it will thrive going into the future. In a world where information can be extracted in a matter of seconds, the old teaching ways are sadly leaving kids behind. Edutech's potential to close this gap is now being realized by companies such as Everonn and Educomp. Although these two companies approach edutech in different ways (everonn supplements the teachers while Educomp complements the teachers), it is the beginning of a model where students can expand the horizons of their learning potentials. Instead of talking about the big bang theory, edutech can show the Big Band Theory and, moreover, put it into PERSPECTIVE. This not only will increase student response but will develop students minds from a young age to think outside the box. The true potential of EduTech does not lie in the teaching aspect rather it is the ability to receive information from the students. Classroom response technology such as "I-Clickers" have the ability to efficiently allocate resources to students who need the help most and monitor their progress. Its safe to say EduTech has arrived and is here to stay...at all levels of education.
Jan 25 2012: Few things left unanswered, if E Learning is the next best things then:-
1) If the Parents are not Educated and not well verse with computers or E-Learning?
2) Who will monitor the kids and check whether they are making the best use of E Learning?
3) Cost factor?
4) Most of the learning's is done through WEB, what about youth getting diverted to some social networking site or any other distraction?Jan 29 2012: Any type of learning is only as beneficial as the participants want it to be. There is no need for different types of education to be competitive. We know that we all learn in different ways, at different times in our lives, for different reasons. So to try to make different types of education feel competitive is simply limiting ourselves. As a person who has never fit in well with "class room learning", I welcome any alternative possibilities for learning, growing and evolving with the life experience:>)
Jimmy Strobl
Jan 29 2012: Since the topic is E-learning I thought that I'd share some links to some awesome websites for just that.
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http://www.udemy.com here you can find many, many lectures on most subjects and Salman Khan ( http://www.khanacademy.org/ ) has a ton of lectures on not only math but everything that's related to science.
http://thefacultyproject.com/ seems to be the ambitious project of Udemy to gather the top professors in the world, coming along nicely.
http://www.academicearth.org/ is a lot like Udemy but with different lectures.
And I'm really hoping that www.education.ted.com "TED-ED" will come along soon enough!
Well, that's all I have to say about that ;)Jan 25 2012: Well,I would say that the E-learning process is growing very fast all over the globe,but my intend is that the normal learning in the schools & colleges with the help of a physical tutor will help us in enlarging the overall perspective of learning.
E-learning should only be a choice but not the option.Jan 29 2012: In the class room, we learn not only the subjects we are supposed to learn, but we also learn other things, such as collaboration, and some life lessons from teachers --in person.
Sometimes, some unpredictable and unintended factors--the atmosphere of the class room, your teacher's unique way of teaching and education philosophy, and relationships between you and your friends--can affects your learning; however, if you try to learn some lesson from every experience in your class room(learning the hard way!), the Class Room learning can be very useful to you and the experience can make you as a responsible, flexible and competent person.
On the contrary, E-Learning can be effective, practical, and so useful to your learning since there would be no problem if you stick to the schedule of it--no one will interrupt you and you won't have to worry about any relationship matters.
But it's in itself still superficial.
What you learn from it are just bunches of information and not "that" memorable to you.
Learning from E-learning may be able to make you as a "book-smart", but it's not enough.
I think there's no "best" way to teach students.
And there's no perfect education philosophy.
So, in a nutshell, IMHO, Classroom learning trumps E-learning.
Of course there has to be lots of IMPROVEMENTS in our class room these days,
but I believe...
there are more possibilities in the "Class room" if you look around :)Jan 29 2012: Last sentence should be Teacher not teach :)Jan 29 2012: Let us not forget that E-learning can be utilized in a typical classroom setting. Think about the usage of Smart Boards, IPads, clickers for participation, etc. The combined usage of so called "in school" learning along with electronic adaptions are being presented more and more in today's educational systems. A well informed spirited on site Teacher, fellow in person classmates, and the inclusion of E- learning adaptive technologies within a classroom is an ideal learning situation for the masses. Students tend to strive much more in a classroom where there is constructive competition in a learning environment that oversees their skills, needs, and age appropriate materials. A teach in the flesh would be a terrible thing to waste.Jan 29 2012: E Learning must and should revolutionize learning for children if it can figure out who will invigilate to create some un teacher like discipline to create a class and some time table for the e-learning. The invigilator need not be a teacher but must be a facilitator who understands behavior and whose focus is help improve a child's social interaction abilities. This is the big need as families break or parents cease to exist in terms of time available. This teaching is the key missing subjects in schools and i do not believe this should lead to the critique of parents or teachers. This is fact because we have created this new way urban way to live. So what is the role of the current teacher and the school??? I believe the real test and purpose of the teacher and good use for the school building is for every student to go to school for "homework". That Honestly will be the real evaluation of e-learning. Cannot allow a server to do that.Jan 26 2012: E-learning is good but its not all. Any teaching-learning process works better when you use all the channels. To make sure someone learns something well, you must go "audio-visual". Those are the main channels. But the "hands on practice" channel is the cornerstone of any teaching-learning process.Jan 25 2012: Today, more and more day-to-day things are made with internet and when a teenager wants to know something, he doesn't ask to its parents but asks to Google. Internet is part of our source of knowledge, communication and share of information.
The MIT, for several reasons, experiements a new way to share its courses. It announced one week ago that they intend to launch an online learning initiative called M.I.T.x (in reference to TEDx?),which will offer the online teaching of M.I.T. courses free of charge to anyone in the world. I think that they understand that if someone wants to learn, the school context will not the best place because if we are not interested in the discipline we do not listen. So the E-learning can be a solution to transmit the information.Jan 25 2012: While judging the merits of E-Learning few things that has my concern
Few things left unanswered, if E Learning is the next best things then:-
1) If the Parents are not Educated and not well verse with computers or E-Learning?
2) Who will monitor the kids and check whether they are making the best use of E Learning?
3) Cost factor?
4) Most of the learning's is done through WEB, what about youth getting diverted to some social networking site or any other distraction?Jan 21 2012: The UK's Open University has been delivering home study modules leading to BSc and MSc degrees for over 50 years. Initially the teaching was via specially produced TV programmes however, the OU quickly made use of PC's and the Internet to become a world leader in e-learning. Students using this mode of education tend to be older and highly motivated so they compete more with themselves to improve their grades than with their cohort. Contact with other learners tends to be more supportive and collaborative. Both very valid skills for the modern workplace.
I beleive students benefit from both forms of educational establishment - certainly for young students university life provides more than just an academic education! However, e learning is excellent for updating knowledge or for changing direction later in life.Jan 20 2012: Here's a comparitive study of the pro's and con's of e-learning:
(as well as the other links and studies I posted in previous comments)
Jan 29 2012: Simon, this is fantastic information. The degree of efficacy of e-learning is surprising...
I mean on one hand, it has obvious structural advantages - including ability to provide courses to a far greater range of audiences, as well as allowing students to better move at a rate that is comfortable to them... even small (but significant) things like note taking been a matter of book marking and copy and pasting.
But it would've been difficult to predict that these sorts of advantages (and more) were of such great efficacy.
It bodes well for a vision of a future where education is done in a much more virtualized manner. Online discussion forums, youtube videos, khan academy, educationally oriented video games (Civilization is one that is both educational and well recieved by hardcore gaming audiences - so it's not necessary to think 'edutainment')... and of course local community interaction.
I'm quite fond of the idea of children in reasonable sized groups (30-100 with multiple adult caretakers of course) of multiple ages growing up together in an extended community, while learning at independent rates in a manner that best conforms with their own internal abilities.Jan 20 2012: I don't think it will ever take over from traditional class-room teaching methods, nor do I think it will ever be AS beneficial, but it does have some benefits which may be specific to the type of course, or the subject matter being taught.
In university I took a quite contentious course called "Science vs Religion" which was held as an online course. Most of our grades were dependent on our active participation in online discussions (much like this). Given the wide range of opinions, views, religions (and the fact that this was just after September 11, 2001), discussions were quite heated. The success of this course really needed it to be in an online format, where anonymity allowed for "good" discussion.Jan 20 2012: Our system is basically the Bismark education system of the 18th century with little changes and it is doing exactly what it was designed to do. Perhaps a defination is in order: education is the passing of culture, knowledge, and practices from one generation to another. Learning is the total of all life experiences including education. E-learning is not bad. I would perfer a combination. A structured course map of individual modules that range from k thru 12 that require you meet prerequisites prior to going to the next module. The student works at his/her rate of learning and completes a competency test to advance to the next module. Students advance academically while remaining with their peers for social development. By remaining in the traditional environment we allow students to take part in the arts, manual trades, sports, and other areas that require interaction and manual dexterity. We still need labs, home ec, and the opportunity to fail and succeed. We need these experiences to grow and develop emotionally. E-learning while building the brain ignores what makes the complete person.Jan 20 2012: When one is looking for an education one shouldnt be looking for competition. One should be looking for growth of oneself and his or her capabilities. Any form of education is great, the idea that one should stick to an education system simply because it will propel you forward faster does not serve the purpose of education. Education has nothing to do with diplomas or grades, they say nothing about the person in all honesty. So I agree will e-education and think anyone who chooses such an option should be considered as qualified as anyone who goes through the "Norm".
Gisela McKay
Jan 23 2012: I, too, was a little perplexed by the idea that learning is somehow a zero-sum game.
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Why should education be competitive?
Is there an inherent reason why 2 people cannot both be taught the same thing to the same level of proficiency?Jan 19 2012: I think E-learning continues to rise in popularity and the education sector continues to thrive because of it.
What's interesting is that distance learning is not a new concept. People have been going to college through mail/catalog programs or even taking classes through dedicated television channels and other homeschool models for decades now. Many times, homeschol students out perform public school students (at least in the U.S). E-learning, if anything, has just made those systems more sophisticated, cleaner, and more interactive.
While I do believe in the power of the classroom (being able to interact is huge), I think the effectiveness of the learning will depend on the individual, the industry that they are interested in, and the academic support they receive.Jan 19 2012: of course no in class room we learn more and more but e learning is easierJan 19 2012: sounds interesting question..i have seen two point of view about this..as we know technology changing a lot and influenced our life as well. i have two side of this point..
Firstly if you see from e-learning or e-studies probably we will know technology dominated on it. We didnt use traditional method for learning but digital for example student did must attending class because they can learning lesson at home or everywhere. so we will say e-learning become good method for learning because reduce our time,cost etc.
Second if we say about old classroom method we will see teacher teaching students in the class, on this point we will see students can make their argument clearly because we meet each other but its not reduce time and some people say its not efficient for some people.
I have conclusion about two point above whether e-learning or old classrooom its depend which one you need or choose. If you have busy time probably you may choose e-learning its beneficial but if you havent much busy time probably you will choose old classroom.Jan 19 2012: I agree that the intended function of e-learning is met through course work. However, the human interaction, the passion of a subject and the ability to functionally discuss ideas in a rapid method are lost in the electronic environment. E-learning misses the nuances of inflection and body language. Perhaps it is a view associated with age and past history. However, the connection of two people can be lost in the interpretation of the written word.Jan 19 2012: Frontal lessons and training can be achieved with higher efficiency using e-learning platforms, i.e. one-to-many instead of one-to-a-few but that is only the visible part of the iceberg, about 5% of what we learn on campus.
My experience tells me that even the most elaborate e-learning systems still lack the kind of background social connections, especially between the connected students, the sense of community of intent that make campus learning so powerful.
Opening access to all knowledge is a massive step forward, especially with respect to efficiency, but it is not a substitue for the quad.. yet. It is true that higher learning is a privilege and may lack industrial "scalability" but it is also true that it is the greatest source of social, cultural and economic progress.Jan 19 2012: The short answer is remote learning for adults: yes. E-learning is training.
I live in a small town in the desert corridor of northern Mexico, and far away from a medium city, so when a major and prestigious university announced a "virtual university", I decided it was time for my MBA. The university had just invested in a satellite TV channel. Back then this was the newest technology, and it was expensive. It showed a type of forward thinking that top notch universities are supposed to have.
There would be about ten of us in a classroom and we would watch a big screen. Five hundred miles away a professor would lecture in front of his live classroom/studio. He would have about 40 local students so he would have facial feedback. Instead of raising our hand we would pick up a phone and call in. Calls were picked up by a number of assistant professors and if they considered it relevant the call would be broadcast live. We would turn in our homework at the local office of the university where twice a week they were sent to the main campus by parcel. We would receive our graded papers in about ten days. The university assigned the best professors to the new system.
It was fantastic. Then they tried to "fix" it.
New was not good enough. They wanted newest. And newest meant more computer, less professor. Lecture hours were reduced. Professors were stripped away from their classroom and would attempt to talk to the camera. They started to sound like when you left a message on an answering machine (remember those?) The lessons felt canned. The only reason I finished is because I was already eighty percent into getting my degree, but the education value was lost.
From my experience, remote learning can be fantastic for adults if it is done right, more so if other options are limited. The system, at least that system, will not work for children. But e-learning will never be an education, only training.
Update: I am having second thoughts about posting this opinion, sinceJan 18 2012: There are aspects of a classroom environment that are extremely difficult to reproduce in an online environment. Laboratory work and other hands-on work are examples. Collaboration also has a very different feeling when people never see each other face to face.
E-learning most easily replaces a lecture format in which knowldge in dispensed. Building in of a responsive capability, as when students are given problems and can respond online to get immediate feedback, compensates for the passive element, but the mentoring component of teacher-to-student is not there unless that too is built in.
That said, as an adjunct to classroom instruction and particularly for students of high school age or older, e-learning is a tremendous resource. For a student whose needs cannot realistically be accomodated in a classroom focused on the needs of its average student, e-learning can provide differentiation, often giving vital access to appropriate content.
E-learning can also in some situations bring students together to exchange ideas who would otherwise be isolated from a diverse but like-minded or like-interested peer group. So e-learning provides access in a situation in which the classroom version is not an option.Jan 18 2012: It worked well for a number of my studies.
I could begin, end and take my exams whenever I wanted and the cost was less than 10% of traditional education, yet I still received valid certificates that were just as viable as any certificate in any college/university and school.
It may not be exactly on topic, but such positives can significantly outweigh the disadvantages for a number of subjects.Jan 18 2012: E-Learning takes some serious initiative by the student his/herself. Many parents feel as if they can force that initiative upon their children by providing rewards, etc,
..but sitting in front of a computer today and attempting to E-Learn with all of the technological distractions related to the internet available to a teenager proves to be difficult to manage.
The E-Learning platform is revolutionary in bringing education as close as a mouse click to people; however the environment that a class-room brings, with interactions between other students as well as teachers, is all a part of the educational process. I feel as if E-Learning is a good substitute, but it is not as sterling as the time-tested classroom education.
Jan 20 2012: Hi Martin,
While I definitely believe in the social benefits of the classroom, all recent data proves otherwise - e-learning and homebased systems continue to show greater results than the traditional classroom model. Perhaps it is more indicative of problems with our education system and less to do with the learning method, but I was surprised when looking at the data itself (I linked/quoted several reports in a comment below).
Jan 26 2012: Simon,
Please excused my delayed reply, unfortunately I can't discuss things on TED all the time as I am so busy lately! (I wish I could, though..)
I had no idea that such data existed! That's quite refreshing. I suppose that I am viewing E-Learning through an American scope, and mirror-imaging our awful home-schooling system onto any other people's attempts.
With that said, I would like to see how E-Learning continues to blossom as classroom-learning will no doubt travel it's same and beaten path.
One comparison would be a popular state college such as Ohio State University versus the University of Phoenix: If the CEO of a large company had to hire a new VP of communications, and found two candidates of equal standing in career path and experience, but one was an OSU graduate and the other a U of Phoenix graduate, I still think that said CEO would choose the OSU graduate (for now, atleast. Perhaps as time passes, this will change?).
Jan 26 2012: I can understand the feeling of accredidation and reputation; one of my degrees is from University of Phoenix (from their campus, not online, though manya ren't even aware that is an option). I think times are changing - chances are that in upper level management, there isn't really an "equal" standing and that at that point, they'd be more likely to hire based on experience, personality, or network over the school - but as you point out, at least in the U.S, there's still a little aversion to distance learning programs.Jan 18 2012: E-Learning is a great concept but there is nothing that really compares to the learning environment that as the old class room method. Children especially, with all the high tech ways of learning actually miss out on interaction with other children. Children, I feel need an environment to learn in, I don't feel that putting them in front of a TV or computer is the ideal way to learn. Learning for all of us involves learning about others and how we talk and interact with each other. This is something that e-learning cannot do. Long live the old class room method I say.
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Jan 19 2012: In 1997, a study of 5,402 homeschool students from 1,657 families was released. It was entitled, "Strengths of Their Own: Home Schoolers Across America." The study demonstrated that homeschoolers, on the average, out-performed their counterparts in the public schools by 30 to 37 percentile points in all subjects.
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In 2000, a similiar study was done on distance learning studies versus on campus students. Again, the at home/distance learning students had better grades, performed better on tests. (src: http://perspectives.ahima.org/option=com_content&view=article&id=113:evaluating-distance-learning-in-health-informatics-education&catid=38:education-a-careers&Itemid=84)
The National Center for Education Statistic also has confirmed the same information....that children perform better outside of the classroom.
Jan 20 2012: Yes they might learn well etc but are they able to interact with others. Learning in a classroom is just not about maths, english etc, it is also about being able to interact with others, learn social skills etc. That is what e-learning misses out on.
Simon Tam
Jan 20 2012: Intercation is not limited to the classroom; many of thsoe involved with homeschool or distance learning get a balance by getting more involved with their community, local organizations, and family.
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The negative sides to e-learning (at least from a study done in Sri Lanka) had to do with low inrastructure, lack of skills in programs like Moodle, and learning styles for certain areas. Their ultimate recommendation was to do a "blend" style that most e-degree programs offer/require anyway (both on campus as well as distance modles), (see "Study on Impact of E-Learning as a Teaching Method" from Nalin Abeysekra for the data)
Intel also did a massive global study on it and found the positive impact to society and students: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/world-ahead/world-ahead-positive-impact-of-elearning-paper.html
What information are you basing your claims on?Jan 21 2012: Ellie, to add to what you said: what is missing from e learning is the bouncing off of each others ideas, which usually result in some major "ah ha"'s in the classroom. We all come from different backgrounds and we miss the excitement of trying out new ideas, concepts, points of view. A discourse is not generated in e learning that creates this excitement. E learning lacks the spontaneity that makes classroom learning fun! Allow the student to learn from their experiential base. For instance, teaching history, I allowed my students to choose HOW they wanted to learn History or a period in history. I really saw the lights come on. "You mean I can learn history through Art, Poetry, Theater?... let the kids choose. It is amazing what they will come up with given some latitude.


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I've been doing this for a long time, and last weekend was one of the best 48 hours for Creston sports that I can remember, in terms of success across the board.
On Friday night, the Creston girls had one of their best performances under coach Larry McNutt in two years, dominating Shenandoah from start to finish in a 54-31 victory. Sure, one of Shenandoah's top two players, Sydney Nielsen, went down with an ankle injury in the first half, but this was a Shenandoah team that came in at 9-5 and Creston's 4-12 squad took it to them all night.
Zaidy Frank (career-high 21 points) and Brianna Maitlen (nine points) showed what quick feet and tenacity can accomplish around the basket against much taller opponents. Natalie Mostek shut down their lefthanded perimeter player with smart defense, and provided her usual array of stats (14 points, five steals, eight rebounds).
At the same time, the Creston boys were tuning up for the big showdown in Greenfield the following night by pounding the Mustangs in Shenandoah, 79-51.
At Corning, the Creston/Orient-Macksburg wrestlers had a modest 35-28 margin over runner-up Clarinda after one round of the John J. Harris Invitational Tournament. After the quarterfinals later Friday night, it was all but decided already.
Nine Panthers had reached Saturday's semifinals, and the Panthers were comfortably in front with 95.5 points. Trailing far behind were Clarinda at 58.5 and Tri-Center at 47.
Walking past the old Armory in Corning Saturday on the way to the tournament's current site — Corning Activity Center — I realized I've been to 33 of the 58 Corning wrestling tournaments. Rarely, if ever, have I seen a team totally take control on the first day like Creston/O-M did on Friday.
By the time the Panthers doubled anyone else in the field with four finalists — Kruz Adamson, Jake Marlin, Trevor Frain and Keaton Hulett — the 2012 title defense was in the bag.
It was my first chance to ask Marlin what it felt like to become the all-time victory leader in Creston's most tradition-rich sport — wrestling.
"I haven't really paid much attention to it, but it is pretty cool," Marlin said. "But I'm not happy with it yet. I'd like to get to 200 wins."
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Hulett, headed to Northwest Missouri State to play football, is also climbing the all-time chart. The current top 10 in Creston history going into Thursday's dual meet: 1. Jake Marlin (2010-13) 187; 2. Kalab Evans (2005-08) 181; 3. Andrew Long (2005-08) 180; 4. Quin Leith (2005-08) 175; 5. Keaton Hulett (2010-13) 159; 6. Collin Bevins (2009-12) 158; 7. (tie) Boone Hayes (2001-04) 156 and Caleb Brus (2004-07) 156; 9. Bret Kautz (2005-08) 149; and 10. Willie Harris (2000-03) 146.
During the finals, I got a message from Scott Vicker in Greenfield that the Nodaway Valley boys were leading Creston, 17-5.
Then a few minutes later, I checked my phone and Scott said Creston had moved in front at halftime, 33-26.
It looked like a real barnburner was taking shape in the Nodaway Valley gym. I wanted to be two places at once.
As the wrestling tournament was wrapping up, and I moved around to conduct interviews, I had my laptop logged in to the live video stream at Nodaway Valley coordinated by Jane Woodside.
As you can imagine, I had to work through a crowd of people huddled around the screen to get back into my seat at the table, as people were fascinated by the conclusion of the game, won by Creston, 59-49.
Scoring in double figures for Creston were Luke Neitzel (18), Colby Taylor (17) and Trey Thomsen (11), and it's been well chronicled how 6-8 Ryan Cook came off the bench to make a key contribution. This kind of team performance will be needed in a substate loaded with the likes of Atlantic and Harlan.
It was also a good experience for Nodaway Valley, in preparation for its own state tournament push in 2A this year. On a "normal" shooting night for the Wolverines, the outcome could have been different. And, I agree with those who say this game should be played every year.
Leave it to former Creston coach Vic Belger to keep an accurate record of history. We reported in error that it had been more than 40 years since Greenfield (or Nodaway Valley) met Creston on the basketball court.
Actually, when Ron Juhler was coach of the Greenfield Tigers, they participated in the old Creston Holiday Tournament at SWCC. On Dec. 22, 1988, Creston beat Greenfield 75-44; and in 1990 the outcome was similar at 77-47.
After that first meeting was the infamous "rainout" game at SWCC, where a leaky roof and wet floor caused suspension of the Creston vs. Diagonal game. The fourth quarter was made up later, with Diagonal taking a 64-53 victory under coach Dennis Tassell.
By the way, while all of this was going on Saturday, Creston was hosting Shenandoah in high school bowling, and picking up victories in both girls and boys action.
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After a great final round at the wrestling tournament, it would have been nice to just go home and kick back. But, there was no rest for the weary. The second meeting of once-beaten Lamoni (52-50 to Murray) and undefeated Murray was taking place at 7:45 p.m. in Murray for the Bluegrass Conference tournament title.
Listening to a broadcast of the Iowa-Wisconsin game and tribute to Chris Street on the radio on my drive across Highway 34, I was also wishing I could be in Iowa City at that moment, too. I still remember exactly where I was standing in the Creston High School parking lot after a Panther basketball game 20 years ago, when someone drove by, rolled down the window, and told me they just heard Chris Street died.
He was the ultimate competitor, and a true talent with NBA potential. The photo of him laughing on the bench with coach Tom Davis is hanging prominently in my home.
Anyway, Lamoni got hot early and won Saturday's game, 62-50, in front of a standing-room only crowd in the Jerry Brown Gymnasium, including Jerry Brown himself.
Murray gained revenge and took a 2-1 series lead this season with a convincing 92-60 triumph Tuesday night in conference play. As a coach, I wouldn't have been overly pleased with the reaction of the Lamoni folks when Tim Brunner slammed a breakaway dunk in the fourth quarter.
They were cheering and going crazy, like they'd never seen a dunk before. The score at the time was 76-47, Murray's favor. All the Mustang fans would need to do at that point was smile and point to the scoreboard!
"As far as I know, that wasn't a 15-point basket," mused Brown afterward.
All I know is, I want to be there when those teams hook up again in district play. Each team has had a sub-par outing in the games I've witnessed. If they're both on their games, it will be a war.
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