The Report
The meta-analysis conducted by Means, Toyama, Murphy, Bakia, and Jones (2009), Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning, really opened my eyes to the fact that online learning in a K12 environment is in its infancy. It surprised me to learn that of the 82 studies included only 5 were directly related to the effectiveness of online learning in K12 (p 37). I’m very interested in seeing how K12 schools start integrating online curriculum. Over all this report shows that online learning in just as effective as face-2-face and in some cases better.
Means, B., Toyama, Y., Murphy, R., Bakia, M., & Jones, J. (2009). Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies. Tech. rep., Center for Technology in Learning.
URL http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf
Chapter 1 - Promise and Pitfalls
The most important thing I’ll remember from this chapter is found on page 28: “The challenge in e-Learning…is to build lessons in ways that are compatible with human learning processes” (Clark and Mayer 2008). In addition, I have made note of two pit falls mentioned on page 24, don’t lose sight of the job and too much media is not good.
Clark, R. C. and Mayer, R. E. (2008). e-Learning and the science of instruction. SanFrancisco, CA: Pfeiffer
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