Kearsley gives several topics of research for online education. Those topics include: student achievement, school-level impact, class interaction, virtual conferences, and learning communities. He talks about how technology has an effect on all of these topics and how we can research them in order to determine where the future of technology and online education is going. But it’s not just technology that we have to research. We also need to research how the class is being taught and evaluate who the course is being taught by. There are a lot of factors that come into play when it comes to online education.