Using data from Google Trends in Italy, we study the differences in online learning usage due to the COVID-19 pandemic by regional academic performance. With 2016 to 2020 data, we find that during the first lockdown, regions with a previously lower academic performance actively increased their...

Partnerships among different stakeholders in designing online programmes is one of the weakest domains in the field of online education. Attempts to define and describe the nature of stakeholder partnerships are fragmented across the literature. To address this gap, a systematic literature...

This paper studies the Random Utility Model (RUM) in a repeated stochastic choice situation, in which the decision maker is imperfectly informed about the payoffs associated to each of the available alternatives. By embedding the RUM into an online decision problem, we develop a gradient-based...

We study how large shocks impact individuals’ skilling decisions using data from the largest online learning platform in Saudi Arabia. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brought about a massive increase in online skilling, and demand shifted towards courses that offered skills, such as...

The COVID-19 pandemic has radically changed the way students learn and engage with their peers and instructors. Likewise , instructors had to quickly transform their course materials to suit the online classroom format. Results from a survey of students at an educational institution revealed...

Conventional learning situations and environments in learning factories are associated with a variety of limitations. Among other things, the application of the desired competences in practical situations is a demanding task fraught with difficulties. With virtual reality (VR), training...

The study investigates the effects of online instructional facilitator’s different qualities on student performance of online class activities. The study explores the roles of instructional facilitators who may influence student performance of online class activities and their academic...

The paper examines the impact of proctoring environments on student performance in two different exam proctoring environments: online versus offline proctored exams. This study employs a set of aggregated data from 1762 students over the eight year period from 2009 to 2016 in a university....

The learner centered teaching LCT is a very important teaching and learning strategies in the field of education. LCT has been widely used in the literature around world. LCT is said to be one of the multiple labels of constructivist teaching philosophy. The focus of the instruction is to...

COVID-19 forced many instructors to migrate their practice online and created a need to develop a new online teaching model. This article proposes an online asynchronous model specifically designed for an economics course. This teaching model was designed with three objectives: consistency,...