Expectations vs. Reality

How do you feel about online learning and teaching (OLT)? How do other instructors and students feel about it? And to what extent are our feelings about OLT supported by research findings? For instance, many people wonder if OLT is truly effective – what does research say about that?

Here, you can share your feelings about OLT, and learn what others have to say, from students, to instructors, to researchers. Click on some links below to get started.

Share your feelings

Explain how you feel about OLT in six words or fewer.

As visitors to the site share comments, we'll post some of them here for you to review and analyze.

Take an interactive quiz

Take a brief interactive quiz about OLT.

As you do, you will learn what students and instructors think about OLT and to what extent those beliefs are supported by research studies.