Online Lecture As an Alternative Method of Instruction in College Classrooms: Measuring the Effects of Alternating In-class with Online Lectures in Two Sections of an Undergraduate Introduction to Behavior Analysis Course Page: 25
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accessing (or not accessing) online lectures. It is also possible that students preferred the
flexibility of time and location, and the ability to self-pace through an online lecture, as opposed
to fixed time and instructor paced in-class lecture. Further attendance at in-class lecture may
have been reinforced through interaction with the TF and TAs, and peers. Another equally
plausible explanation would be that in-class lectures were available at only one time. Students
who perceived the benefits of lectures to their course grade may have attended; perhaps these
students would not have attended in-class lectures if an online option were available. Future
research could investigate how to design a blended course in order to maximize the benefits of
online and in-class instruction. Thus incorporating the flexibility of time and location, and self-
pacing of online instruction, and the interaction with instructors and peers that are an integral
part of in-class instruction.
The data from the current study suggest that, within the context of this course, online
lecture and in-class lecture produced similar student learning outcomes. Perhaps the direction
future researchers should now take is to design the optimal blended or online learning
environments, rather than determining the differential effectiveness of online and in-class course
formats. For example, researchers might investigate how to increase student access to online
lectures, explore the effects of embedding active student responding within online lectures, or
how to arrange contingencies for completion of online lectures. Advances in instructional design,
technologies of teaching, and assessment of student learning outcomes provide the platform for
curricula and instructional strategies, perhaps computer based, that teach more than just the
regurgitation of facts. In a context in which blended and online instruction will likely be readily
available to all, continued research in this area can ensure that courses will utilize only those
techniques that support and enhance student learning outcomes, continuing to develop more25
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Treacher, Kay G. Online Lecture As an Alternative Method of Instruction in College Classrooms: Measuring the Effects of Alternating In-class with Online Lectures in Two Sections of an Undergraduate Introduction to Behavior Analysis Course, thesis, May 2013; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271907/m1/31/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .