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Author: KayDee Caywood, Jane Duckett
Article Title: Online vs. On-Campus Learning in Teacher Education
Published Date: April 1, 2003
url:
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/088840640302600203

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/088840640302600203
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Author: Alfred P. Rovai, Hope M. Jordan
Article Title: Blended Learning and Sense of Community: A
comparative analysis with traditional and fully online graduate courses
Published Date: August 2004
url: http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/192/795


Author: Matthew J. Werhner
Article Title: A Comparison of the Performance of Online versus
Traditional On-Campus Earth Science Students on Identical Exams
Published Date: November 2010
url: http://www.nagt-jge.org/doi/abs/10.5408/1.3559697?code=gete-
site

http://www.nagt-jge.org/doi/pdf/10.5408/1.3559697
(pdf document)

Summary of journal article: A Comparison of the Performance of
Online versus Traditional On-Campus Earth Science Students on
Identical Exams

Running out of classroom space on campuses, providing greater
flexibility for students, and meeting the various learning styles of many
students are some of the concerns universities are addressing by
offering more and more online classes. By contrast, some students
prefer the on-campus class experience for the structure they
provide. On-campus classes offer encouragement and support from
professors, interaction with others, and discipline of multi-day weekly
class meetings. As more and more online classes are being offered, the
question of online versus on-campus classes and the student
performance in each has become a topic of many studies. The study
this article discusses is one held at Hillsborough Community College
from the Fall of 2005 to the Spring of 2007. Most students who enrolled
in this Earth Science class, both online and on-campus, were non-
science majors and fulfilling a science requirement for graduation. The
general Earth Science class covered several topics
including: meteorology, astronomy, geology, and oceanography. All
students in both types of classes used the same textbook, study guides,
and exams, with the exams for online students being held on campus.

Professor Werhner uses lectures with questions, demonstrations, and
models drawn on the board in the on-campus classes. For the online
class, the professor made a powerpoint for the students and included
his voice to explain each slide along with diagrams and models on the
slides. Using WebCT, both classes had objectives and virtual field trips
assignments to complete and submit online. The exams, however, were
all taken on-campus in very similar rooms with the exact questions for
both online and on-campus students. After compiling data from 2005 to
2007, Professor Werhner concluded that the online students perform as
well the on-campus students on the exams in the Earth Science
class. While online classes are not new necessarily, they are still a fairly
new tool in higher education learning. The demand for such classes
continues to increase as universities try to meet the demands of a vast
array of students, both traditional and non-traditional. The question
still remains...online versus on-campus? Werhner says that much more
research needs to be explored and examined to answer this question.

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