Saturday, February 14, 2004
537 Learner Centered Practices in Distance Education
537 Learner Centered Practices in Distance Education:
"Although the AFT survey indicated that the learning in online and face-to-face classes was basically equal, they nonetheless expressed a quality concern when they questioned whether 'deep understanding of difficult material-beyond amassing facts - can occur in the absence of same-time same-place interaction' (AFT, 2000).
This concern is particularly interesting given the lack of research on learning in the undergraduate classroom. Most higher education research relies on survey data, e.g., class ratings and specialized survey's like the National Survey of Student Engagement (Kuh, 2001), to infer, based on student report, that learning has occurred. While some research has actually looked at student learning in the classroom to examine quality of discussion (Nunn, 1996; Smith, 1983) and results of learning objectives being met by students(Hayes , 1998a, 1998b), the results of these studies leads us to question the efficacy of our current classroom based model."
"Although the AFT survey indicated that the learning in online and face-to-face classes was basically equal, they nonetheless expressed a quality concern when they questioned whether 'deep understanding of difficult material-beyond amassing facts - can occur in the absence of same-time same-place interaction' (AFT, 2000).
This concern is particularly interesting given the lack of research on learning in the undergraduate classroom. Most higher education research relies on survey data, e.g., class ratings and specialized survey's like the National Survey of Student Engagement (Kuh, 2001), to infer, based on student report, that learning has occurred. While some research has actually looked at student learning in the classroom to examine quality of discussion (Nunn, 1996; Smith, 1983) and results of learning objectives being met by students(Hayes , 1998a, 1998b), the results of these studies leads us to question the efficacy of our current classroom based model."
# posted by Yik Sheng : 8:42 AM
