Title:

Can Web Courses Replace the Classroom in Principles of Microeconomics?

Author/s:

B. Brown
C. Liedholm

Year:

2002

Excerpt:

The results strongly suggest that the virtual course represents an inferior technology compared to the live sections… The live students do significantly better than the virtual students on the most complex material … We find that the students in the virtual classes, while having better characteristics, performed significantly worse on the examinations than the live students.

About the study:

Finding Significant DIfference – Better Results in the Classroom
Links to Article http://miranda.ingentaselect.com/vl=1506182/cl=52/nw=1/rpsv/ingentaselect/aea/00028282/v92n2/s83/p444


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