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Saturday, July 05, 2003
No Significant Difference And Distance Education - Rick Shearer, Distance-Educator
There are many ways we can examine differences between distance education and face-to-face instruction, but using the idea of no significant difference is probably a mis-directed approach. In the Pew Learning and Technology Study "Innovations in Online Learning" authored by Carol Twigg (2001) the issue of no significant difference and equivalent learning outcomes is commingled with the idea of whether distance education is as good as, better, or worse than traditional face-to-face instruction. Here the author has taken a concept, that has been argued by Richard Clark and others in regard to educational technologies, and has applied the idea to the broader topic of distance education. The two issues are not the same.
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