Tuesday, January 13, 2015
My Research Paper so far
So far on my research assignment, I have come up with a thesis and five arguments to defend it. I have also made five notecards and found a few sources to help me make my them. Two of the sources I have found are Vantage Point: Teaching Online Vs. Face-to-Face by Mike Dubose and Teaching College courses online vs. face-to-face by Glen Ferguson. I haven't found anything surprising or interesting so far because I had difficulties at the start of this project when picking a thesis and it's supporting arguments. Since I had difficulties at the start of this project, I tried to alter the question slightly and make a thesis that I believed in hopes to write a paper that could theoretically be used. Since the thesis and arguments took a lot of time think through, I have not done as much research as I had hoped I would've done by now. The original question for this research paper is whether online learning or face-to-face learning is better. I see reasons for both being better than the other for different people, so I altered the question a little bit to create a thesis that is students whose education benefits more from a face-to-face interaction require a face-to-face education and vice versa; students can not benefit from both. The arguments for the thesis are that people have different styles of learning, maturity levels, schedules and life priorities, needs for human interaction (introvert vs extrovert), and I'm debating whether to include neuroscience or the chemical make up of the brain. In other words, some people need the extra part of their day and the structure of the face-to-face classroom and others need the flexibility of an online classroom. Overall, I'm not where I want to be on this research paper but I have a solid idea of where to go and what to look for.
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