New Technologies in Higher Education: Lower Attendance and Worse Learning Outcomes?

Pedro Gomis-Porqueras, Juergen Meinecke () and José Rodrigues-Neto

Agenda - A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, 2011, vol. 18, issue 1, 69-84

Abstract: This paper explores the incentives offered to students and instructors by new technologies that grant access to online class materials. We examine the consequences for attendance and composition of live lectures and argue that new technologies reduce attendance, and very likely reduce it differentially.

Date: 2011
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