This paper examines the application and impacts of Mobile learning in providing sustainable distance learning in the case of developing countries having multiethnic social environment. The sustainability is conditioned by the structure of learners and well as the teaching community. This paper...

E-learning has become the main stream among higher education institutions. Courses in various fields are offered online, students can enroll for a course through internet, lecturers and students are able to share online course materials which include notes, assignments and other multimedia...

This paper assesses quantitatively the impact on student performance of a blended learning experiment within a large undergraduate first‐year course in statistics for business and economics students. We employ a difference‐in‐differences method, which controls for differences in student...

Despite their didactical potential many Virtual Learning Communities (VLCs) fail in enhancing learning outcomes. Therefore, we synthesise factors most critical for establishing a successful VLC. Applying a structured literature review, we searched for studies dealing with VLCs in the well known...

With the dramatic increase of online business degree programs, the question of the effectiveness of online courses has been front and center. Do these once primarily face-to-face courses successfully transfer to online-only formats without losing student productivity? Do the new formats still...

The article is dedicated to the questions related to the introduction of teaching into educational process of a university as a basis of self developing reflexively organized innovative professional activity. Having emphasized psycho-dynamic process initiated by interactive methods of teaching...

We examine whether online learning technologies have led to lower prices in higher education. Using data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, we show that online education is concentrated in large for-profit chains and less-selective public institutions. Colleges with a...

This study investigates factors that promote substantive posts and higher order critical thinking in online discussion. The authors compared weekly discussion threads from two online Principles of Macroeconomics courses taught in 2008 and 2011. The 2008 class was considered a low-structure class...

Classroom experiments in economics continue to increase in popularity. While early experiments were often hand-run in-class, computerized, online experiments are now also widely available. Using a quasi-experimental approach, we investigate whether any difference in student achievement (as...

This paper presents the first experimental evidence on the effects of live versus internet media of instruction. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live lectures versus watching these same lectures in an internet...