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A prior comparative study examining learning outcomes between traditional classroom and web-based education at the graduate level provided little evidence of differences in success measures between delivery methods [3]. This research explores underlying factors that may explain why little difference was found.
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Jones, B.M., Everard, A., McCoy, S. (2011). Distance Education at the Graduate Level: A Viable Alternative?. In: Jacko, J.A. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Users and Applications. HCI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6764. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21619-0_8
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