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Download full textBettinger, Eric; Doss, Christopher; Loeb, Susanna; Taylor, Eric – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2015
Class size is a first-order consideration in the study of education production and education costs. How larger or smaller classes affect student outcomes is especially relevant to the growth and design of online classes. We study a field experiment in which college students were quasi-randomly assigned to either a large or a small class. All…
Descriptors: Class Size, College Students, Small Classes, Online Courses
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Direct linkGoedde, Brian – Thought & Action, 2014
When you think of global, online education, the first thing that may jump to mind these days are MOOCs, the "massive open online classes" that are widely publicized (and criticized). The author states that his classes were not these, but rather, closer to what are now being called SPOCs--small private online classes. Enrollment is…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Educational Technology, Distance Education, English Language Learners
Smith, Michelle K.; Trujillo, Caleb; Su, Tin Tin – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2011
Although the use of clickers and peer discussion is becoming common in large-lecture undergraduate biology courses, their use is limited in small-enrollment seminar-style courses. To investigate whether facilitating peer discussion with clickers would add value to a small-enrollment seminar-style course, we evaluated their usefulness in an…
Descriptors: Seminars, Course Evaluation, Embryology, Biology
Gleason, Jim – College Teaching, 2012
The implementation of online texts, videos, homework, and tests has changed the process of instruction in introductory college mathematics courses. With this change, more of the students' learning takes place outside of the traditional college classroom and in places such as tutoring centers and dorm rooms. A combination of chi-square tests--for…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, College Students, Class Size, College Mathematics
Walker, Ruth; Barwell, Graham – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2009
Peer bias is recognised as a primary factor in negative student perceptions of peer assessment strategies. This study trialled the use of classroom response systems, widely known as clickers, in small seminar classes in order to actively engage students in their subject's assessment process while providing the anonymity that would lessen the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Peer Evaluation, Audience Response Systems, Focus Groups
Smith, Peter, Ed. – Association Supporting Computer Users in Education, 2014
The Association Supporting Computer Users in Education (ASCUE) is a group of people interested in small college computing issues. It is a blend of people from all over the country who use computers in their teaching, academic support, and administrative support functions. ASCUE has a strong tradition of bringing its members together to pool their…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Conference Papers, Computer Uses in Education, Small Colleges
