Rachel Smith

September 8, 2016
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Google Scholar assignment
Article 1

Author- David P. Diaz and Ryan B. Cartnal

Title- Students Learning Styles in Two Classes: Online Distance

Learning and Equivalent On-Campus

Date Published- 25 March 2010
URLhttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/8756755990959580
2?journalCode=vcol20

Article 2

Author- Patterson, Belinda; Mcfadden, Cheryl

Title- Attrition in Online and Campus Degree Programs
Date Publsihed- Summer 2009
URL- http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ869274

Article 3

Author- Cooper, Linda W.

Title- A Comparison of Online and Traditional Computer

Applications Classes
Date Publsihed- March 2001
URL- https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-72960475/acomparison-of-online-and-traditional-computer-applications

A Summary Of: A Comparison of online and Traditional Computer

Applications Classes
Between 1998 and 2002, the market for online courses using
Internet or Intranet skyrocketed. They went from being a 4 billion dollar

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market to a 15 billion dollar market in just the span of four years. This
increase is an outcome of students having computer knowledge before
attending college and the growing rate of working adults occupying the
college population. With these two types of aspects growing in college
campuses online classes give the flexibility to meet work schedules
and to all around fit the needs of college students. Although the
convenience of an online class sounds great there is speculation that
the quality of the online class is not as good as the traditional
classroom. People argue that an online class does not give the student
the same interaction and instruction as compared to our general
classroom.
In order to test these theories about online classes, there was a
study that compares online instruction to in-class instruction. Several
aspects are factored into the survey including: in-class instruction,
online instruction, gender, age, and employment status. After the
survey was broken down into 3 different tables, researchers found that
the biggest difference was in the employment status. Looking at the
graph most full-time employees were in online classes and most parttime employees were in the traditional class. Another interesting fact
shown by the survey was the average age for a traditional class was 23
and the average age for an online class was 27.

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To give insight into the background of an online class, in the
summer of 1998 at Macon State College an online class called
Fundamentals of Computer Applications was created. However, not just
anyone could enroll in this online course. There were certain
requirements in place such having a 2.5 grade point average, Internet
access, and MS Office software. In addition to the being an online class,
the students also received a day in the traditional classroom to go over
the syllabus, textbooks, requirements, and questions about the course.
Students were also allowed access to software training so they did not
run into difficulties later on.
As the year came to an end, the students in this online class were
instructed to give a course evaluation over their online class. Not only
was this evaluation over course content, the instructor, and grading
process but it also evaluated the quality of learning in an online class
versus a traditional class.