Is it Live or is it Internet? Experimental Estimates of the Effects of Online Instruction on Student Learning via kwout
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.
Contrary to the claims that are being made in this working paper, lecture capture CANNOT be referred to as online learning. The working paper Is it Live or is it Internet? Experimental Estimates of the Effects of Online Instruction on Student Learning is a better example of what not to do with online learning than it is an example of face2face instruction being superior to online instruction. The paper also assumes that traditional lectures represent good instruction–which is a false assumption. At best the results of this investigation reveal that poor face2face lectures make for even poorer online instruction. This NOT online learning!
