Outline

Research Paper Outline:

Explain the foundation of what online education is and how it works. Who it benefits; students and universities.
- explain statistically who takes online classes and why do they take them? Dobbs
-- busy adults and lazy undergrauates
- explain financial benefits that could result from online classes (use Targum to compare to Rutgers)
Set up the problem: failure and drop out rate statistics and why online classes are not utilized as much as they should be.
-Use Park and Hee's article as to why online students do not pass and copmpare to Bell's article that explains how online classes are limiters because they only help certain types of students.
Establish the fact that motivation of the online student is what's restictling success.
- the online student has "handicaps" that are usually the reason why they enroll in these classes. Is it their responsbility to be motivated?
- Teachers instructing online classes may not feel responsible for motivating, but could it be their job to restructure classes so more students can succeed? Kirtman/Hunt
How can teachers motivate students to do well in online classes?
-Ransdell. Rovai
Discuss why putting the blame for failure on either the student or the teacher is unimportant. High failure is a problem that needs to be fixed, regardless of the reason. Leaving the motivation up tp the student will not solve the problem, but improving how teachers lead these classes will create a solution. constructivism! Rovai