An Assessment of Student Learning Perceptions in Concurrent Online and Face-to-Face Education Delivery Environments Research-in-Progress

In this paper we explore the impact of traditional versus online education delivery methods on student learning perceptions. We leverage and evaluate a unique concurrent face-to-face and distance learning educational context to measure and compare perceptions of different student groups. In this context the same instructor simultaneously conducts the same course in both face-to-face and online delivery modes creating what is effectively one virtual class. At the end of the course, student learning perceptions are collected and measured for each delivery mode / student group set. With this data we explore and analyze the effects of on-line education delivery as compared to traditional face-to face classroom instruction. Our initial findings show that student perceptions of their experience, performance and learning outcome in an online environment are much lower and statistically different from those students in a traditional classroom setting.

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