This paper studies a novel game-theoretic setting: players may acquire new actions over time by observing the opponent’s play. We model this scenario as finitely repeated games where players’ action sets are private information and may endogenously expand over time. Three main implications...

E-learning is developing as the new paradigm of modern education. The global e-learning business is growing at a 35.6 percent annual rate and still there are failures. The success of e-learning systems is predicted mainly on user satisfaction, and unknown about factors that influence to learners...

Today, most educational institutions across the world have implemented online learning system due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As per the government's orders, all educational institutions closed operations from 12 March 2020 in Sri Lanka. Gradually, institutions started transforming to online...

Internet-based educational tools and the growth in information communication technology has given a boost to the electronic learning platforms. E-learning has prospered across all levels of higher education institutions globally. Adoption to e-learning depend on several perspectives such as...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced schools and universities to transit from traditional class-based teaching to online learning. This paper investigates the impact produced by this shift on students' performance. We use administrative data of four cohorts of students enrolled in an Italian University...

We study the impact of COVID-19 school closures on differences in online learning usage by regional academic performance. Using data from Google Trends in Italy, we find that during the first lockdown, regions with a previously lower academic performance increased their searches for e-learning...

I study the impact of online instruction on teaching evaluations at a higher education institution in Spain. Using a difference-in-differences approach, I show that in the semester when teaching moved online, female lecturers were evaluated more poorly than in previous semesters. The performance...

School closures, forced by the COVID-19 crisis in many countries, impacted on children's lives and their learning process. There will likely be substantial and persistent disparities between families in terms of educational outcomes. Distant learning solutions adopted by schools have been...

PurposeCOVID 19 pandemic situation has forced to adopt online mode for learning. Whereas readiness of Indian students to use online platforms are under question. There are various models available to understand acceptance of technology. For this study we have used the most popular ‘unified...

We study a dynamic assortment selection problem where arriving customers make purchase decisions among offered products from a universe of $N$ products under a Markov-chain-based choice (MCBC) model. The retailer observes only the assortment and the customer's single choice per period. Given...