August 10, 2010

Rushing Too Fast to Online Learning? Outcomes of Internet Versus Face-to-Face Instruction

ScienceDaily for August 8, 2010 reported on online learning.

"Online instruction may be more economical to deliver than live instruction, but there is no free lunch," said David Figlio, Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University and primary author of the NBER working paper released this month. "Simply putting traditional courses online could have negative consequences, especially for lower-performing and language minority students."