The Benefits of Online Education
Introduction
To a degree, all educational institutions have migrated some of their services online, taking advantage of new media and new technologies to improve service delivery, cut costs, and enhance the learning environment. From eBooks to cloud-based collaborative work projects, the online environment adds depth to the classroom and expands opportunities for students from different backgrounds including those with special needs. It is therefore no surprise that enrollment in online education programs has been steadily climbing, with the greatest growth in the private non-profit school sector (Allen &… Continue Reading...
relation to the social presence as well as immediacy of the instructor and how immediacy relates to social presence in online educational settings.
3. List the hypotheses; then, underline and label the corresponding independent/dependent variables or predictor/criterion variables. Are there any covariates? If so, name them.
Several hypotheses were analyzed by the authors in the context of the highlighted educational settings. The hypotheses have been stated below:
Hypothesis 1i: Participants who view the high-immediacy sessions will indicate higher perception of instructor immediacy than the participants who view the low-immediacy sessions.
Hypothesis H1ii: Participants who view the high-immediacy, video and audio with text chat session will indicate the highest perception of… Continue Reading...
schools and online learning with innovations leading to ease of use of online education and classes taught in schools. “I don’t believe that scores of colleges will simply disappear in the future and be replaced by online imitations” (Selingo, 2013, p. xvi). The synthesis of technology and tradition is something that Selingo does not want to let go of, even when President of Stanford University,… Continue Reading...
