The question also poses and artificial dichotomy. There are tasks that are done better by incarnate teacher and tasks that computers are suited better. Generally hybrid applications are superior to computers or teachers alone See: Liberal Arts and distance Education, Arts and Humanities In Higher Education, Charles Ess, 2003, vol 2(2) 117-137 http://tcfir.org/whitepapers/Connected%20Learning%20Framework.pdf Both will lead you to a bibliography that is extremely useful. Reid -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Michel J. Menou Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 2:21 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] on line education effectiveness I am afraid formulating the question as "is on line education effective" or "more/les effective than F2F education" is an unfortunate simplification. Irrespective of the milieu where they take place, education or instruction can be more or less effective depending on a variety of factors, including among others instructors and learners' talents, willingness, readiness, attraction for the subject, interaction, etc. in addition to the material constraints and particular circumstances of the participants. An illustration of the above can be seen in the PhD dissertation of Andrea Brandão Lapa, A formação criticia do sujeito na educação a distança (the critical formation of the subject in distance education) IPPUR/URRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2005. In Portuguese. Michel Menou -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.3/445 - Release Date: 11/09/2006 _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/