As a Filipino who has worked in the United States as an Emergency Department nurse for over 15 years and taught nursing students, I can highly recommend Nurses’ E-Learning Center (NELC).  I trained and worked with Torane Hull when he was in San Francisco at one of the busiest Emergency Departments in the city.

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.