Moving Beyond No Significant Difference. Quote: The vast majority of online courses are organized in much the same manner as are their campus counterparts: developed by individual faculty members, with some support from the IT staff, and offered within a semester or quarter framework. Most follow traditional academic practices ("Here’s the syllabus, go off and read or do research, come back and discuss."), and most are evaluated using traditional student-satisfaction methods. This is hardly surprising, since most online courses are offered by traditional institutions of higher education. (via elearningpost) [Serious Instructional Technology]

An interesting review of efforts to do a better job of making learning happen in e-learning environments. The title refers to the fairly consistent result that e-learning efforts, at best, track closely with conventional learning settings. Which begs the question of how much learning occurs in conventional settings.

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