Week 11...

There are so many variables! Right now, it seems to be just impossible to really make strong comparisons between face to face or even between different online courses.  What a lot of people have been posting is that instead of always comparing, we should be looking for best practices.  I think it is easy to forget that we often do the same in studying just face to face classes.  A classroom (online or otherwise) is such a dynamic environment that it is impossible to control the variables.  Besides the fact, that unlike lab experiments we don't always want to control all the variables because that isn't in the best interest of the students.  So we study best practices.  As educators we need to embrace this and continue to improve our own practices.