Virtual Classrooms: How Online College Courses Affect Student Success

Eric Bettinger, Lindsay Fox, Susanna Loeb and Eric S. Taylor

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Abstract: Online college courses are a rapidly expanding higher education feature, yet little research identifies their effects relative to traditional in-person classes. Using an instrumental variables approach, we find that taking a course online, instead of in-person, reduces student success and progress.

Keywords: Higher Education; Research Institutions; Returns to Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21
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