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Online learning boosts student performance

From Don Tapscott's Grown Up Digital blog:

Online learning boosts student performance

"The U.S. Department of Education has just released a report comparing traditional face-to-face classroom instruction to learning supplemented or completely replaced by online learning. The conclusion: ?Students who took all or part of their class online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through traditional face-to-face instruction.?"

Read more here.

US Department of Education
Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning
A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies
93 page PDF

I certainly see this in our epxerience with the blended learning approach developed for SirsiDynix SchoolRooms and implemented in Ohio schools.

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on August 30, 2009 (boomark / email).