Education Research Report: The Effects of Online Instruction on Student Learning

Education Research Report: The Effects of Online Instruction on Student Learning: "The Effects of Online Instruction on Student Learning
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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. Counter to the conclusions drawn by a recent U.S"