Blog Post #3 - Research Gap in Methods of Online Learning
Blog Post #3 I felt that the articles I found tended to make generalized statements about discussion posts or interactive quizzes, but didn't specify what about the discussion post or quiz made it effective and more engaging for students. The gap in my research is that specific forms of delivery are not compared and contrasted. There were a few sources that did give specific examples of modes to try, but there wasn't an experiment done to compare the effectiveness of one form to the other. I feel as though I only scratched the surface of my topic. It was difficult to know what to search to find sources that were primarily focused on the design and writing instead of the instructor's delivery. Since writing my literature review, I have done more searching and have found some sources that I think are more related to technical writing, though they also do not seem to be so specific about which forms of delivery are most effective.