As one of the founders and the Executive Director for Nawa Academy, a private boarding school in California, U.S.A., I have had the privilege and opportunity throughout my career, to start and manage a variety of educational programs.

Can people in an online learning environment perform as well or better than those on classroom education?

The U.S. Department of Education has recently published an Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning. This evaluated a thousand empirical studies from 1996 to 2008. The study entitled, A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies, revealed that, on average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.