Online school. Has it come into it's own?

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This is a research paper analysing the results of proctored v/s non proctored exams. Quite an interesting read. It kind of shows that online education is growing popular.

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1179630.pdf

My favorite part   ...

"Furthermore, 90% of online students were found to read the required text compared to just 60% of their classroom counterparts, who apparently were waiting on their instructors to “feed” the information to them. Overall, the authors found that students in their sample earned higher grades, believed they learned more, thought exams were easier, spent more time on classes, found the text more useful, and perceived classes to be of higher quality, but overall they saw classes as harder in the online learning environment (Hannay & Newvine, 2006)."

Thanks for posting!