On Aug 19, 2009, at 7:04 PM, Radhika Gajjala wrote:
It also takes much more time and effort on the part of the instructor before - in preparing - and during class ...
Ain't that the truth. I haven't taught one, but I know my online instructor poured a lot of effort into the class and it was still confusing for the students. That leads me to recall that the confusion in the course led my fellow students and me to seek each other out in the BlackBoard asynchronous forum area to help each other deal with the confusion. That, and the fact that I never participated in such interaction during my offline undergraduate days oh so many years ago, makes me wonder if online or partly online courses don't have more student-to-student interaction, which would likely increase student performance. Hmmmm. --Christian