Lets see the Tow articles about two different results  according to search with academic specialist :

 

The first one : 

 

 

No Significant Difference

2002 - Johnson, M.

Introductory Biology Online: Assessing Outcomes of Two Student Populations

Journal of College Science Teaching - February, XXXI, number 5, pp 312-317, 2002

"� no significant differences were found in outcomes for students in the two modes of instruction... you can read more about this article with this link: http://www.nosignificantdifference.org/advanced_search.asp The second one : Significant Difference - Better Results with Technology 2002 - Arle, J. Online Human Anatomy (Rio Salado College) Innovations in Online Learning Center for Academic Transformation - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2002 "The national achievement average is 51 percent on this test, and the sample base is entirely from the traditional classroom. My students (entirely online) score an average of 63 percent on these same items." Also,you can read more about this article with this link: http://www.nosignificantdifference.org/advanced_search.asp My point of view "opinion" : There are significance differences between traditional classroom and distance learning . Distance education is more flexible to deal with student ,and we know the good thing is that we can learn any time any ware ,so nothing will be missed  Actually , we hope to see an obvious  result  to judge between two different ways of learning .AS we see from those two studies learning  can approach to the learner earthier you are near or far In my opinion, technology is better with these days 21th . I like what the study mentioned about collaboration learning .They give example about how can student work together and do they assignments and projects without closing the browser .