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Is it live or is it Internet? Experimental estimates of the effects of online instruction on student learning

Posted on 26 Apr 2012 with 0 comments

This paper presents the first experimental evidence on the effects of live versus internet media of instruction. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live lectures versus watching these same lectures in an internet setting, where all other factors (e.g., instruction, supplemental materials) were the same.

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