Business Schools are under intense competitive pressure, and one way for them to differentiate themselves and compete distinctively is by adopting innovative uses of information technology. However, incorporating information technology in business education is no trivial undertaking. This...

Many economic markets, including most major stock exchanges, employ market-makers to aid in the transactions and provide a better quality market. This Study is aimed to establish an analytical foundation for electronic market making strategy, by giving a probabilistic interpretation to the...

Although engagement and learning seem linked, quantitatively measuring this relationship is challenging. New technologies offer a window into studying the interactions among classroom activity, student engagement, and positive learning outcomes in computer-equipped classrooms. A Classroom...

This article investigates the use and the satisfaction derived from e-learning training by sales representatives of commercial banks in France.The research carried out among these representatives concerns a banking training scheme which was followed from work or from home. The analysis of the...

Does differential access to computer technology at home compound the educational disparities between rich and poor? Would a program of government provision of computers to early secondary school students reduce these disparities? We use administrative data on North Carolina public school...

This paper examines student perceptions concerning online homework assignments in an introductory finance class. In general, students felt that online homework was preferable to traditional homework assignments that are turned in to the instructor. Additionally, students reported that the...

In this paper we explain and assess the benefits of integrating an interactive, online learning object into a finance course. Animation and interactivity combined with the accessibility of the online learning objects create a rich, student-controlled learning environment. We present a new...

We test whether students in a hybrid format of introductory microeconomics, which met once per week, performed as well as students in a traditional lecture format of the same class, which met twice per week. We randomized 725 students at a large, urban public university into the two formats, and...

Educational resources distributed via the Internet are rapidly proliferating. One prominent concern associated with these potentially transformative developments is that, as many of the leading technologies of the last several decades have been, these new sweeping technological changes will be...