Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom

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Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom

I found this article from the New York Times very interesting. The article talks about the research done by the SRI International for the Department of Education. The report compared the different types of online instruction to the face to face traditional setting from 1996 to 2008. The report was presented in 2009. The study included the K12, Adult Education and College level. Most of the information is related to College and Adult Education.

The study concluded that the online students ranked 59 % in test performance and the traditional student ranked 50 %. The article also talks about the increasing use of technology in the classrooms and how important it is in learning communities outside the classroom.