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Batu, Michael; Bower, Nancy; Lun, Esmond; Sadanand, Asha – Journal of Education for Business, 2018
The authors investigated the effectiveness of online versus paper assignments using final examination scores in three cohorts of theory of finance. In particular, two cohorts were exposed to online assignments while another cohort was exposed to traditional assignments. The central result is that exposure to online assignments robustly leads to…
Descriptors: Finance Occupations, Business Administration Education, Educational Theories, Online Courses
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Pelech, William; Wulff, Dan; Perrault, Ellen; Ayala, Jessica; Baynton, Myra; Williams, Margaret; Crowder, Rachael; Shankar, Janki – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2013
One of the first tasks of the Social Work Distance Education Network at the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary was to review the literature and address three research questions to inform policy making and planning relating to distance social work education programming. This paper is intended to disseminate responses to these…
Descriptors: Social Work, Distance Education, Performance Factors, Barriers
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Fillion, Gerard; Limayem, Moez; Laferriere, Therese; Mantha, Robert – International Journal on E-Learning, 2009
For the past two decades, information and communication technologies (ICT) have transformed the ways professors teach and students learn. The purpose of this study is to investigate the points of view of onsite professors (hybrid or blended mode) and of those teaching the same courses on the Internet (online mode). But first, a summary of onsite…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Structural Equation Models, Least Squares Statistics, Data Analysis
Spencer, Carrie – Journal of Distance Education, 2006
In this study, 254 Royal Roads University School of Business learners (graduates and undergraduates) were surveyed on their online course-related reading habits and choices. Based on their responses and anecdotal comments and the data from follow-up interviews with six of the participants, learners preferred print copies of text materials for…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, Printed Materials, Online Courses, Computer Assisted Instruction