User:Drbarbour
[edit] Michael K. Barbour
Dr. Michael Barbour is an Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology at Wayne State University. His research interests focus on rural K-12 students learning in virtual school environments, specifically how these virtual opportunities can be designed and delivered to be accessible to students from a range of abilities. In this regard, he has conducted research projects in four areas: differences in student achievement based upon delivery model and urban-rural distinctions and the factors accounting for these differences; components of web-based learning that students find helpful and challenging; characteristics of effectively designed web-based courses; and whether new technologies, particularly those that allow for interaction, in virtual high schools affect how students learn.
He maintains the following:
- Homepage - Virtual High School Meanderings blog - Virtual Schooling wikispace
