A PIVOT AHEAD III. Common Misunderstandings Many educators long for the day that we return to campus and life proceeds with a kind of “new normalcy” that the current online learning arrangement does not seem to satisfy. One wonders whether that return to campus will be accompanied by an enlightened understanding of student learning or whether the perceived limitations of online will be used as a “straw man” to argue for a return to prior programs and pedagogies. Are the intuitions of most educators based on the realities of learning research or are they influenced by an inertial mythology of the differences between F2F and online learning? Does the existence of that mythology inhibit teachers from extracting “lessons learned” from the online experience? We surveyed teachers to see where their beliefs about online and other progressive pedagogies fall compared with colleagues. Let’s look carefully at some of the misunderstandings highlighted by the reported variations in results.
Segment of OESIS Online Survey
1. The research shows that online learning is not as effective as F2F — MISUNDERSTANDING — Hundreds of research studies have looked at online and F2F comparisons with varying results. The biggest drawback is the establishment of control groups since we rarely ask students to complete the same course twice
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