Online Learning

This blog is home to a semester long project in online searching.  Many searches on many different types of databases, social media, and search engines will be done on one related topic. The topic for my searching project is online learning.  It will be narrowed or broadened depending on the database in question. Each database entry will consist of a screen shot of the search strategy, a shot of the top or best hit, one content based item you learned about your topic, and one searching tip you learned about the particular database.  Finally, you will share a brief reflection about the experience of searching for your particular topic area in the required databases.











image from http://www.langevin.com/blog/2013/10/24/3-resources-for-e-learning/

 

 

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Online learning: A word cloud image


image from https://online.ist.psu.edu/gettingstarted/onlinelearning and found on Google Image

Online Education Statistics

These statistics come from the 2012 Survey of Online Learning by the Babson Survey Research Group, freely available at http://babson.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4SjGnHcStH5g9G5

LexisNexis

1. Search

2. Hit

3. Content: What I learned

4. Search: What I learned

DIALOG


DIALOG was searched for (online learners or online teaching) and (higher education) and (evaluation or assessment).  From there a 4th facet was added regarding Communities of Practice.  The limiters were: peer reviewed, English, from 2012-2013, dt=article, rt=journal article,  and scholarly journals.  This led to 962 hits.  Next I excluded all non-relevant database, added a 4th facet on community building and have the total number of hits down to 228.
Here is a screen shot of one of the top 5:

McPhee, Iain, and Tor Soderstrom.  2012.  Distance, online and campus higher education: Reflections on learning Outcomes.  Campus-Wide Information Systems 29, 3: 144.155. 

Content: What I learned:The research attempted to compare face to face learning with online learning. The researchers studied separate online and f2f courses from Scotland and Sweden.  The c ourses from both universities used their respective syllabi but it was identical for their online and f2f classes.  Grades and student performance scores were evaluated.  The research showed that there was no difference between  the two types of course delivery regarding grades and test scores.

Searching: What I learned:The ProQuest interface takes some getting used to because I am used to searching DIALOG Classic.