Abstract
AbstractAttempts to improve teaching through research have met with limited success. This is, in part, due to the fact that teaching is a complex cultural system that has evolved over long periods of time—multiply determined and inherently resistant to change. But it is also true that research on teaching is difficult to carry out. Using traditional educational research methodologies, testing new methods of teaching requires, first, that teachers be able to implement the method at a scale sufficient for study, that random assignment of teachers to conditions can be feasibly carried out, and that ecological validity of the treatment can be preserved. In this chapter, we propose an alternative approach that combines the affordances of online learning with the methodologies of systems improvement. Using an analogy from the development of the airplane, we discuss how online learning might be a wind tunnel for the study and improvement of teaching.
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