This is a quick short follow-up to my post last week on social media in education. Just days before I wrote the blog entry there was an article in the New York Times which I stumbled upon today. The article appropriately titled, “Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom”, goes in-depth and provides research done by the US Department of Education, which shows the impact of online education compared to a traditional classroom. You can have a look at the report here. It would be interesting to see a follow-up study that focuses on the impact of real-time feedback/participation from within the classroom by using technologies such as text messaging and twitter.