Does teaching online take more time?

Author

Hislop, Gregory W.

Author_Institution

Coll. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Abstract

Many instructors feel that teaching online takes more time, but there is relatively little data available on this issue. This paper discusses a study that involves detailed recording of instructor time in online and traditional course sections to support a comparison between the two modes of delivery. The presentation describes the study approach and problems encountered in trying to get an accurate picture of instructor time. The presentation also includes results of an analysis of instructor time for a series of course section pairs. Each section pair includes one online and one face-to-face section of the same course taught by the same faculty member. The data provides some general support for the notion that teaching online may take more time than teaching face-to-face. However, the amount of difference tends to be small, and there are some indications that this relationship between teaching mode and time is more complicated than generally assumed

Keywords

computer aided instruction; teaching; asynchronous learning networks; course section pairs; face-to-face teaching; instructor time recording; online course sections; online education; online teaching; teaching time; traditional course sections; Costs; Disk recording; Distance learning; Education; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Employment; Information technology; Teleworking; Time series analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 2001. 31st Annual

Conference_Location

Reno, NV

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6669-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2001.963858

Filename

963858