Comparative Analysis of Learning Outcomes in Online vs. Face-to-Face Computing Courses at a Four-Year University

Online education at the undergraduate and graduate levels has been growing at a dramatic rate at colleges and universities. According to Allen and Seaman [6] more than 6.7 million students across 2, 800 universities are enrolled in at least one online class. While many universities resisted full online education in the past, the COVID-19 pandemic required an urgent shift from face-to-face to online education. This has caused institutions to quickly investigate and adopt strategies and technologies to support online teaching and learning.<br><br>Now that institutions have gone (or are still going) back to the ‘norm’, the online (or asynchronous) learning experience showed that such a modality can provide an excellent opportunity to seek online degrees that is convenient to many students due to its flexibility to fit into the schedules of busy students, especially, graduate students and non-traditional students who might have full-time jobs and/or facility obligations that make face-to-face traditional learning very inconvenient and hard to fit into their lives.