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...

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have commanded considerable public attention due to their sudden rise and disruptive potential. But there are no robust, published data that describe who is taking these courses and why they are doing so. As such, we do not yet know how transformative the MOOC...

I recently enrolled in a MOOC, largely in order to develop a presentation for an organization of which I am a member. In this paper, I discuss the structure of the MOOC and draw some tentative conclusions about the current and future possibilities for MOOCs

Recently, online learning has generated a great deal of interest. The offering of MOOCs for interested students and for possible college credit has stimulated a lot of animated discussion, in both online and face-to-face modalities. Here we introduce and share with interested colleagues course...

SEI (computerized educational system) governmental program, initiated in 2001, is a national approach whose objective is to computerize the education system by giving schools the necessary equipment, by designing a large number of software for the interaction student-contents of subjects taught,...