Climbing Aboard the Online Research MO-PED-Fuelling Good Online Education Outcomes with Good Online Research Programmes

Abstract

Online education is our brave new education world, providing unique challenges and opportunities for its rapidly growing numbers of students, instructors and course developers. The brave new opportunities of online education include an opportunity for online course educators to develop, teach and refine online courses based on empirical evidence of the comparative value of various online course feature possibilities. Basing online course development on research evidence allows online education best practice. As such, online education research programmes are increasingly necessary to guide the optimal advance of online education. This chapter describes the development, implementation and less..