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

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

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Rodrigues-Neto, José A. ; Gomis-Porqueras, Pedro ; Meinecke, Juergen
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Hochschule \| Higher education institution \| Studium \| University education \| Bildungsertrag \| Returns to education \| Technischer Fortschritt \| Technological change \| Lernen \| Learning

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (15 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2011 Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments August 9, 2011 erstellt
Classification:	I1 - Health ; J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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