March 26, 2004

Whether Online or in a Classroom, Courses Take About the Same Amount of Time to Teach, Study Finds

By DAN CARNEVALE

Professors often say it takes far more time to teach a course online than it does in a classroom. A recently published study says the complaint may be all in their heads.

Gregory W. Hislop, an associate professor of information science and technology at Drexel University, and Heidi J.C. Ellis, an associate professor of engineering and science at Rensselaer at Hartford, a campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, asked seven professors, each of whom teaches a graduate course both