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Ellegood, William A.; Bernard Bracy, Jill; Sweeney, Donald C., II; Duncan, Mimi; Burns, Kathleen – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2019
In this study, we investigate the joint impacts of class size, modality of content delivery and instructor workloads on 1078 student performances from 2010 through 2014 in a required College of Business Administration Information Systems (IS) course at a public Midwestern university, controlling for 11 demographic and other factors that might…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Academic Achievement, Class Size, Faculty Workload
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Slover, Ed; Mandernach, Jean – Journal of Educators Online, 2018
While it is well-established that nontraditional students are more likely to take online courses than their traditional-age counterparts, investigations of the learning equivalence between online and campus-based instruction typically fail to consider student age as a mediating factor in the learning experience. To examine learning outcomes as a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Intermode Differences, Online Courses
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Ellis, Robert A.; Han, Feifei – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2018
Integrating an online component into a university course is typically done to improve the student experience. However the intent of the teacher's blended design may not always align to the students' experience of it. Their experience may be mediated by a number of factors including student perceptions of the online environment and their approach…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Educational Environment, Blended Learning, Student Experience
Blohm, Katherine E. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The following study examined the question of student achievement in online charter schools and how the achievement scores of students at online charter schools compare to achievement scores of students at traditional schools. Arizona has seen explosive growth in charter schools and online charter schools. A study comparing how these two types of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Academic Achievement, Online Courses, Conventional Instruction
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Guidry, Krisandra – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2017
Research in the area of amount of time spent on assignments and effect on course performance has focused exclusively either on the lecture or online format, but not comparison of the two. Nowhere has both modes of delivery been studied using an objective measure of course involvement. This study examines what is most significant in predicting a…
Descriptors: Assignments, Delivery Systems, Lecture Method, Online Courses
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Seirup, Holly J.; Tirotta, Rose; Blue, Elfreda – Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 2016
As online education continues to grow, understanding faculty and student perceptions seems to be an imperative piece of the decision to continue to expand online offerings. The purpose of this study was to review faculty and students perceptions of online learning and to gain an understanding of the current status of distance education. This study…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Distance Education, Intermode Differences, Student Surveys
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Brooks, Stoney; Taylor, Joseph – Journal of Education for Business, 2016
The authors explore the differences between traditional, book-based methods of teaching Excel and online, platform-supported methods by comparing teaching students in different locations, with and without online support. As Excel is a critical skill for business majors, the authors investigate which methods and locations provide the highest…
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Science, Online Courses
Bettinger, Eric; Fox, Lindsay; Loeb, Susanna; Taylor, Eric – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2015
Online college courses are a rapidly expanding feature of higher education, yet little research identifies their effects. Using an instrumental variables approach and data from DeVry University, this study finds that, on average, online course-taking reduces student learning by one-third to one-quarter of a standard deviation compared to…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Conventional Instruction, Delivery Systems, Intermode Differences
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Dendir, Seife – Journal of Education for Business, 2016
The author uses data from two Principles of Microeconomics courses to examine differences in characteristics and performance of online versus face-to-face students. The analysis indicates that even in a traditional institution, the two delivery modes may be serving students with distinctly different backgrounds and characteristics. In terms of…
Descriptors: Microeconomics, Student Characteristics, Online Courses, Intermode Differences
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Bolsen, Toby; Evans, Michael; Fleming, Anna McCaghren – Journal of Political Science Education, 2016
This article reports results from a large study comparing four different approaches to teaching Introduction to American Government: (1) traditional, a paper textbook with 100% face-to-face lecture-style teaching; (2) breakout, a paper textbook with 50% face-to-face lecture-style teaching and 50% face-to-face small-group breakout discussion…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Online Courses, Conventional Instruction, United States Government (Course)
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Fernandez, Heidi; Ferdig, Richard E.; Thompson, Lindsay A.; Schottke, Katherine; Black, Erik W. – Educational Technology & Society, 2016
This study sought to establish a baseline for understanding the epidemiology of online K-12 students with special health care needs, determine the prevalence in K-12 online schooling of students from certain racial/ethnic backgrounds, those with socioeconomic disadvantages, and determine how these students perform in online classes compared to…
Descriptors: Special Needs Students, Health Services, Virtual Classrooms, Elementary Secondary Education
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Lang, Guido – Information Systems Education Journal, 2016
This study tests the effects of tutorial format (i.e. video vs. text) on student attitudes and performance in online computing education. A one-factor within-subjects experiment was conducted in an undergraduate Computer Information Systems course. Subjects were randomly assigned to complete two Excel exercises online: one with a video tutorial…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Online Courses, Multimedia Materials, Multimedia Instruction
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McCarty, Cynthia; Bennett, Doris; Carter, Shawn – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2013
The use of online course offerings in college has grown sharply in recent years. Previous research, while limited, is inconclusive in determining expected student performance in online versus a traditional lecture format. This paper focuses specifically on student performance in introductory microeconomics classes, analyzing learning differences…
Descriptors: Microeconomics, Economics Education, Online Courses, Conventional Instruction
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Atchley, Wayne; Wingenbach, Gary; Akers, Cindy – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
Enrollment in online courses has outpaced overall university enrollment for the past several years. The growth of online courses does not appear to be slowing. The purpose of this study was to compare course completion and student academic performance between online and traditional courses. Archival data from the host university student records…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Conventional Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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Hostetter, Carol – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2013
The study examines the relationship between social presence and students' learning outcomes. An emerging body of research connects social presence with learning outcomes in online coursework. Social presence is the "degree to which a person is perceived as a 'real person' in mediated communication" (Gunwardena &…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Computer Mediated Communication, Evidence, Teaching Methods
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