By Tony Bates, e-Learning and Distance Education Resources
This is another useless comparative study between online and face-to-face teaching, this study looked at 312 undergraduate students in one microeconomics course in one unnamed state university and found that male, Hispanic and low achieving students did worse online than in face-to-face classes. However, the online courses in this study were just video recordings of the classroom lectures. There should be a law against any university or college that fails to adopt well tried and tested standards in its teaching, face-to-face or online. This is criminal negligence, no less, and students should sue for fraud. But don’t blame online learning for this. It’s academic laziness and ignorance that’s at fault. And will someone please tell researchers that they have to look at other variables besides the mode of delivery – such as the quality of the teaching – when making comparisons?
http://www.tonybates.ca/2010/10/06/when-online-learning-fails/
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