“…However, in the general distance education literature there has been discussion as to whether the demographic and academic characteristics of students who enroll in Web-based courses differ from the characteristics of students who enroll in lecture-based courses. Some academics have stated that Webbased courses are best suited for and most utilized by nontraditional aged students and students with higher-than-average academic capabilities (Halsne & Gatta, 2002;MacGregor, 2002;. However, other researchers have found no difference in age, gender, race/ ethnicity, course hours completed, grade point average (GPA) or technological experience when comparing students who register in Web-based courses and lecture-based courses (Banerjee & Brinckerhoff, 2002;Leasure, Davis, & Thievon, 2000;Palm, Brallier, Gilbert, & Darrone, 2007;Roblyer, 1999;Wang & Newlin, 2002).…”