How Students Feel About Online Learning

A research showed that students apparently feel more comfortable taking online classes or at least that's what the study says when it comes to real results where the students had a better performance in terms of average than those who had a face to face (traditional) classes.

This are some of the key findings:http://distancelearn.about.com/od/distancelearning101/tp/Online-Learning-Statistics.htm

1.The mean difference between online and face-to-face conditions across the 51 contrasts is statistically significant

2.Instruction combining online and face-to-face elements had a larger advantage relative to purely face-to-face instruction than did purely online instruction. The mean effect size in studies comparing blended with face-to-face instruction was +0.35. This effect size is larger than that for studies comparing purely online and purely face-to-face conditions, which had an average effect size of +0.14.

3.Few rigorous research studies of the effectiveness of online learning for K–12 students have been published. The systematic search of the research literature found just five experimental or controlled quasi-experimental studies comparing the learning effects of online versus face-to-face instruction for K-12 students. As such, caution is required in generalizing to the K-12 population because the results are for the most part based on studies in other settings (e.g., medical training, higher education).

The stats show that online learning is a more effective way of learning for students, it may not apply in all the areas of study, but the method certainly works. This generation feels much more familiar with the internet and also communicates better using this tool ,since they have developed better this type of communication than any other.

This is where the education is heading, to work with modern tools that are understood by the generations that change their habits day by day.