This study measures 'trust' at the beginning and the end of a semester for in-person and online classes using a questionnaire designed to measure the different dimensions of trust in virtual teams. Different types of trust include personality-based trust, institution-based trust, and cognitive trust (eg., schemes based on our choices of whom to trust as we get to know people) and the questionnaire used measures the latter two types. It would be interesting to see such an evaluation made of MOOC participants - or at least to have a sample size greater than 27. Interestingly, at least in this instance, there were no significant differences in levels of trust between the two types of course. "The change in trust levels over the course of a semester were the same for both course formats." Interestingly, "the online teams had higher initial levels of trust." Of course, next time, perhaps they should run the study with students who are strangers, not students who have already sat through the same prerequisite courses at the same institution. Talk about your biased samples! Via Tony Bates, who links to three additional new articles from the JDE.
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