Don't just take my word for it.
Reviewing the almost countless web sites out there that claim to have educational goals is a gargantuan, and rather thankless task. It's hard to think that somebody would really want to do it, and I admit that I don't. I tire easily from seeing more of the same over and over again, especially when that same is invariably depressing.
But others have undertaken the task, and they're even close to the Boidem's home. From their extensive investigation of a wide range of characteristics of 436 web sites that claimed to have educational purposes, Mioduser, Nachmias, Oren and Lahav, in their paper Web-Based Learning Environments (WBLE): Current Pedagogical and Technological State found that:
More than 93% of the sites are aimed to individual work. Less than 3% support online collaborative work and 12% include learning activities which suggest classroom collaborative work as supplement to the online work.
Analysis of the instructional model embedded in the sites shows that a traditional, hierarchical, highly structured, and directed instruction mode still prevails. Only 28% of the sites support inquiry-based learning.
Web technology offers a wide range of possibilities regarding instructional means. Data shows that the most frequent means implemented are information-bases (65%) and structured activities (48%). Open-ended activities, tools, and virtual environments are included in about 7-13% of the sites. Only very few sites include online adaptive mechanisms.
Put more in layperson terms, what they found was that "educational" web sites basically transferred the traditional classroom to cyberspace. If and when someone investigates why pupils are bored with online studies, they won't even have to examine the web - they can simply use any one of the countless studies conducted on the traditional classroom.
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