DISTANCE LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENT

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cacault, M. Paula; Hildebrand, Christian; Laurent-Lucchetti, Jeremy; Pellizzari, Michele
• 署名单位: Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; University of St Gallen; University of Geneva
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1542-4766
• DOI: 10.1093/jeea/jvaa060
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 2322-2372
• 关键词: online instruction; college; principles; attendance; community; classroom; ECONOMICS; time

摘要

Using a randomized experiment in a public Swiss university, we study the impact of online live streaming of lectures on student achievement and attendance. We find that (i) attending lectures via live streaming lowers achievement for low-ability students and increases achievement for high-ability ones; (ii) students use the live streaming technology only occasionally, apparently when random events make attending in class too costly, and (iii) offering live streaming reduces in-class attendance only mildly. These findings have important implications for the effective design of education policies.