Comments on: UNESCO’s GEM Report: Data Collection Doesn’t Equal Accountability https://news.elearninginside.com/unescos-gem-report-data-collection-doesnt-equal-accountability/ News for eLearning Wed, 26 Jun 2019 17:52:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Pablo Riboldi https://news.elearninginside.com/unescos-gem-report-data-collection-doesnt-equal-accountability/#comment-10877 Tue, 21 May 2019 20:40:30 +0000 https://news.elearninginside.com/?p=3990#comment-10877 Duh!! The next to the last paragraph acknowledges that the exams for the two courses were different, which confounds the variables and makes the whole “study” on valid.
Also, we have had tons of similar studies on F2F vs. Online where the online course is just like the F2F course replacing the live lectures with video lectures and showing similar results as this study (without the effect of confounding the exams variables). That is not online learning!! The problem is that courses based on just video lectures are boring!!
You need to compare well-designed online courses with a variety of teaching, learning, practicing experiences and assessments and a well-designed F2F large introductory engineering course. (Because of the large component and scalability problems, large F2F courses end up being lecture based.) Use the same exams and then you will have a study to publish!

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