[Air-L] Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom

[Akesha]

I agree that is an excellent resource.
I also would recommend Ko, S., & Rosen, S. (2001). Teaching online: A
practical guide. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.  It does a good job detailing
pedagogical practices that can help when implementing an online classes.

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Akesha Horton

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On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Denise N. Rall <denrall at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Here's an "older" book that actually details what should be done to run a
> good online classroom -
>
> As well as student responses (in 1999)
> Palloff, R. M. and K. Pratt (1999). Building learning communities in
> cyberspace: Effective strategies for the online classroom. San Francisco,
> Jossey-Bass.
>
> There may be an update. Highly recommended.
>
> Denise
>
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> --- On Thu, 20/8/09, Radhika Gajjala <cyborgwati at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Radhika Gajjala <cyborgwati at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [Air-L]  Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom
> > To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> > Received: Thursday, 20 August, 2009, 9:04 AM
> > Christian I agree.
> >
> > Its not online vs offline - but difference in pedagogy and
> > engagement. The
> > student has to be active in online discussion to be
> > "present" - likewise the
> > instructor has to be engaged on various levels in order to
> > keep up with
> > "teaching" in an online setting.
> >
> > It also takes much more time and effort on the part of the
> > instructor before
> > - in preparing - and during class ...
> >
> > r
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Christian Nelson <xianknelson at mac.com
> >wrote:
> >
> > > Oops, forgot that pesky new policy and responded only
> > to Gerry.
> > > Anyway, here are my concerns about this news.
> > > First, I wonder if the researchers controlled for
> > student ability and
> > > motivation. Online students tend to be the more bright
> > and motivated ones.
> > > Second, I wonder if they controlled for amount of
> > student-teacher
> > > interaction. I suspect that most online teachers are
> > adjuncts and
> > > non-tenured folks from whom much student interaction
> > time can be demanded,
> > > and student-instructor interaction seems unavoidable
> > in online courses, much
> > > as online instructors might seek to limit it. (At
> > least, that was true in
> > > the one I took. My professor vigorously tried to avoid
> > or at least lessen
> > > interaction, but had a hard time doing so.)  On
> > the other hand, most
> > > off-line teaching is low in student-teacher
> > interaction. Research indicates
> > > that even most discussion section teaching is
> > lecturing--the same kind of
> > > thing you'd find in a large lecture hall . . . or on a
> > TV delivering
> > > distance ed. courses for that matter. In light of
> > that, it is little wonder
> > > that students might do better online, given that
> > interaction is unavoidable
> > > in online courses.
> > > If amount of interaction is the cause of the
> > difference found here, it is
> > > then misleading to pose this as a difference between
> > online and
> > > "face-to-face" teaching, and unfortunate that it does
> > so, because I'm sure
> > > that truly discussion-focused face-to-face teaching
> > trumps online teaching,
> > > at least as its found in the majority of places today.
> > And there's no
> > > guarantee that online teaching will maintain its level
> > of student-instructor
> > > interaction--soon we'll have teaching via
> > video-conferencing and with it a
> > > likely increased presence of lecturing and its
> > equivalents online.
> > >  --Christian Nelson
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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