AN ANALYSIS OF VARIATION IN TEACHING EFFORT ACROSS TASKS IN ONLINE AND TRADITIONAL COURSES

Gregory W. Hislop, Heidi J. C. Ellis

2004

Abstract

As the role of the internet and internet technologies continues to grow in pace with the rapid growth of online education, faculty activities and tasks are changing to adapt to this increase in web-based instruction. However, little measurable evidence exists to characterize the nature of the differences in teaching effort required for online versus traditional courses. This paper reports on the results of a quantitative study of instructor use of time which investigates not only total time expended, but also examines differences in types of effort. The basis of the study is a comparison of seven comparable pairs of online and traditional course sections where instructors recorded time spent during course instruction for the seven pairs. This paper discusses relevant related work, presents the study motivation and design, discusses how teaching effort varies across different tasks between online and traditional courses, and presents thoughts for future research. The results of this study indicate that instructors of online courses spend more time on direct interaction with students when compared to instructors of traditional courses, but spend less time on other activities such as grading and materials preparation.

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W. Hislop G. and J. C. Ellis H. (2004). AN ANALYSIS OF VARIATION IN TEACHING EFFORT ACROSS TASKS IN ONLINE AND TRADITIONAL COURSES . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 202-207. DOI: 10.5220/0002625002020207


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis04,
author={Gregory W. Hislop and Heidi J. C. Ellis},
title={AN ANALYSIS OF VARIATION IN TEACHING EFFORT ACROSS TASKS IN ONLINE AND TRADITIONAL COURSES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={202-207},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002625002020207},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - AN ANALYSIS OF VARIATION IN TEACHING EFFORT ACROSS TASKS IN ONLINE AND TRADITIONAL COURSES
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - W. Hislop G.
AU - J. C. Ellis H.
PY - 2004
SP - 202
EP - 207
DO - 10.5220/0002625002020207