More Evidence That Students Take Their Online Studies Seriously

The U.S. Department of Education is saying what many Saint Leo students have said for years: that students who take online college courses often performed better academically than their student counterparts taking face-to-face courses, according to the publication Inside Higher Ed. A big part of differing outcomes may be that online students spend more time
with the material. Also important: the report doesn’t endorse online over classroom instruction as a better teaching method, as the evidence suggests the differences in grades are more attributable to the learners’ longer hours of studying. Students in “blended” courses, ones that combine both online instruction and class time, seemed to do the best of all academically.