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Introduction The article “Comparing the Effectiveness of Classroom and Online Learning” by Ya Ni (2013) focused on comparing the effectiveness of two distinct delivery methods, a topic not dissimilar to the report by the Department of Education (2010).  Unlike that report, which was a statistical meta-analysis of several different platforms and approaches, this study focused on the analysis...

I reviewed this document both as a Federal Government employee, immersed in the various standards that have been passed to encourage performance and evaluation as well as an online instructor.  For example, why would the Dept of Ed be interested in sponsoring this?  As many will recall from their civics classes, although the President suggests a budget, only Congress has the power to authorize...

Introduction   I found Biro’s Table of The Comparison of Learning Theories as I was looking for articles on gamification.  In that article, Biro boldly proposes that gamification should be considered as the fifth learning theory accompanying the current primary theories of behaviorist, cognitivist, constructivist, and connectivist.  Note that I say primary since there are several schools...