Playing ‘catch up’ with blended learning: performance impacts of augmenting classroom instruction with online learning

Timothy Hill, Laku Chidambaram and Jama D. Summers

Behaviour and Information Technology, 2017, vol. 36, issue 1, 54-62

Abstract: This study examines the efficacy of blended learning – an approach that combines in-class and online methods in a way that leverages the strengths of both – using a field experiment spanning 16 weeks. An information-processing model of learning suggests that learners will weigh the cost of information accessibility against its value in ways that will impact their interactions with the available information sources, which will consequently affect learning outcomes. Results of our study suggest that such an assessment did indeed occur and that it impacted learning performance. Specifically, our results support the idea that providing high-value content in both settings – the classroom (rich, yet high cost) and online (efficient, yet low cost), enhances performance. The largest gains in performance were seen by those who used the blended learning system the most, with the lowest gains by those who did not use the system at all (i.e. the control group).

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2016.1189964

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