1. NYT article on recently released Dept of Ed report on online education vs the classroom, and best practices in online ed:
The analysis for the Department of Education found that, on average, students doing some or all of the course online would rank in the 59th percentile in tested performance, compared with the average classroom student scoring in the 50th percentile. That is a modest but statistically meaningful difference.
“The study’s major significance lies in demonstrating that online learning today is not just better than nothing — it actually tends to be better than conventional instruction,” said Barbara Means, the study’s lead author and an educational psychologist at SRI International.
2. Open Yale Courses--free online ed. They're going for high quality and had planned for these courses to be online before the lectures were given, as opposed to say MIT open courseware (not that that site isn't also great, it just takes a different approach, more of a data dump). Can recommend these two so far:
ECON 252-Financial Markets, Prof Robert Shiller
PSYC 101-Into to Psychology, Prof Paul Bloom
3. Academic Earth has way more
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