Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com
August 19th, 2009
A recent 93-page report on online education, conducted by SRI International for the Department of Education, has a starchy academic title, but a most intriguing conclusion: “On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.”
The report examined the comparative research on online versus traditional classroom teaching from 1996 to 2008. Some of it was in K-12 settings, but most of the comparative studies were done in colleges and adult continuing-education programs of various kinds, from medical training to the military.
(Link: Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com)
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