Online Pedagogy: Research and Resources in Online Teaching/Learning

A comprehensive article published by the Chronicle in 2020 during the height of the pandemic. An excellent current overview of research and best practices.

A 2010 report prepared for the U.S. Department of Education - It is a meta analysis of research literature of studies of online learning from 1996-July 2008. The analysis found that, on average, students in online learning conditions performed modestly better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.

A challenge to the meta-analysis findings - and concerns regarding how online learning can undercut progression among low income and academically underprepared students

Description: A set of eight General Standards and 42 Specific Review Standards used to evaluate the design of online and blended courses. Annotations explain the applications of the Standards and their inter-relationships. The Rubric has a scoring system used by the Review Team to determine whether a course meets Standards. Essential Standards (3-point Specific Review Standards) must be met during the review and an overall score of 85% of the points possible are required for a course to attain QM certification.

In 1997, Frank Mayadas, President of the Online Learning Consortium (renamed OLC), affirmed that any learner who engages in online education should have, at a minimum, an education that represents the quality of the provider’s overall institutional quality. Any institution, he maintained, demonstrates its quality in five inter-related areas – learning effectiveness, access, scale (capacity enrollment achieved through cost-effectiveness and institutional commitment), faculty satisfaction, and student satisfaction.