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They used three groups of students (unfortunately they used intact class sections rather than random assignment) and used the following facilitation approaches:
* Group 1: Students required to respond to two posts and instructor responds to all initial posts
* Group 2: Students not required to respond and instructor responds to all initial posts
* Group 3: Students required to respond to two posts and instructor does not respond to students’ initial posts -
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Setting New Standards with Online Education | Editorial
What does this mean for 21st century higher education? This is exactly what President Obama is talking about when he discusses expanding access to higher education. The evidence indicates that for those who want to learn and be able to demonstrate and apply their knowledge, online education is a viable, affordable way to alternative to more traditional means of obtaining postsecondary education. It will allow people from all economic classes to take advantage of opportunities that might otherwise be unavailable to them. Best of all, no longer will students be required to take on excessive, unmanageable debt to get ahead. Everyone has been given the ultimate gift: equal opportunity to pursue life, liberty and happiness.
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students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction. However, these differences were not necessarily rooted in the media used. In general, advantages for online learning reflected differences in content, pedagogy and learning time. The majority of the studies that directly compared purely online and blended learning conditions found no significant differences in student learning
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Often, blended delivery instruction (face-to-face and online) provided more opportunity for collaborative activities not received by students in control conditions.
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Effective Practices | The Sloan Consortium
Sloan-C Effective Practices site. To help make quality online education accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, the Sloan-C community shares techniques, strategies, and practices in online education that have worked for them. All effective practices are peer reviewed
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Quality Matters: Inter-Institutional Quality Assurance in Online Learning
General resource that includes rubric and research to support quality metrics for online learning - "Quality Matters (QM) is a faculty-centered, peer review process designed to certify the quality of online courses and online components. "
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About Sloan-C | The Sloan Consortium
The Sloan Consortium is an institutional and professional leadership organization dedicated to integrating online education into the mainstream of higher education, helping institutions and individual educators improve the quality, scale, and breadth of online education
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Learn what Chief Academic Officers in US Higher Education have to say about online learning. Staying The Course - Online Education in the United States, 2008 is now available as a free download
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