An Information Week article provides a good breakdown on a U.S. department of education research study detailing the differences in learning online versus classroom with online edging out person-to-person classroom teaching. The study focused on four questions:
1. How does the effectiveness of online learning compare with that of face-to-face instruction?
2. Does supplementing face-to-face instruction with online instruction enhance learning?
3. What practices are associated with more effective online learning?
4. What conditions influence the effectiveness of online learning?
Meta-data used 51 independent studies of online vs. classroom learning methods. The SRI study found that, on average, online students would rank in the 59th percentile of all college students, while average classroom students would be in the 50th percentile.
“The study’s major significance lies in demonstrating that online learning today is not just better than nothing – it actually tends to be better than conventional instruction,” Barbara Means, the lead author of the study, told The New York Times.
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