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Changing Distributions: How Online College Classes Alter Student and Professor Performance. CEPA Working Paper No. 15-10
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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