In course evaluations, 90 percent of the students in John Thompson’s graduate-level education courses at the University of San Diego indicated that the online learning experience was as good as or better than the traditional classroom and 91 percent would take another online course.
In asynchronous discussion forums, participants usually come from diverse backgrounds, including gender and culture, and the textual cues they post online are usually reflections of their own diversity. How you handle equity and diversity issues can be a key to online course retention.
In order to have a productive learning environment, the instructor needs to develop and maintain a sense of trust between and among the students and
Students’ perceptions of what an online course will be like are often quite different from how it really is. That is why Jim McKeown, assistant
