Online Learning Study

There’s an abstract of a U.S. Dept of Education study on the effectiveness of online education available at: http://teaching.uncc.edu/ctl-blog/effectiveness-online-learning . The USDE study examined over a 1,000 studies between 1996 and 2008 and screened those studies to analyze the success of online vs. face-to-face instruction.

The complete study can be downloaded here: http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf .
TechNews from JCCC, July 6, 2009 J. Bacon