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Assessing the Costs of Balancing College and Work Activities : The Gig Economy Meets Online Education
Aucejo, Esteban; Perry, A. Spencer; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Balancing the demands of work and schooling is a challenging task for an increasing number of students who have to pay their way through college and for workers who intend to upgrade their skills. However, flexible learning and working environments could play an important role in easing many...
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Remix Rights and Negotiations Over the Use of Copy-Protected Works
Gans, Joshua S. - 2014
This paper examines an environment where original content can be remixed by follow-on creators. The modelling innovation is to assume that original content creators and remixers can negotiate over the 'amount' of original content that is used by the follow-on creator in the shadow of various...
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Is it Live or is it Internet? Experimental Estimates of the Effects of Online Instruction on Student Learning
Figlio, David N. - 2010
This paper presents the first experimental evidence on the effects of live versus internet media of instruction … versus watching these same lectures in an internet setting, where all other factors (e.g., instruction, supplemental …-experimental analyses of internet instruction in higher education, we find modest evidence that live-only instruction dominates internet …
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Can Online Delivery Increase Access to Education?
Goodman, Joshua - 2016
Though online technology has generated excitement about its potential to increase access to education, most research has focused on comparing student performance across online and in-person formats. We provide the first evidence that online education affects the number of people pursuing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455926
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The Competitive Effects of Online Education
Deming, David J. - 2016
We study the impact of online degree programs on the market for U.S. higher education. Online degree programs increase the competitiveness of local education markets by providing additional options in areas that previously only had a small number of brick-and-mortar schools. We show that local...
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Technology and Education : Computers, Software, and the Internet
Bulman, George - 2016
A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This paper explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456438
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New Evidence on Classroom Computers and Pupil Learning
Angrist, Joshua - 1999
The question of how technology affects learning has been at the center of recent debates over educational inputs. In 1994, the Israeli State Lottery sponsored the installation of computers in many elementary and middle schools. This program provides an opportunity to estimate the impact of...
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Is Online Education Working?
Altindag, Duha Tore; Filiz, S. Elif; Tekin, Erdal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The pandemic has revived the longstanding debate about the effect of online versus face-to-face instruction on student achievement. The goal of this paper is to provide new evidence on the impact of online versus face-to-face instruction on student learning outcomes, using rich, transcript-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599403
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The Consequences of Remote and Hybrid Instruction During the Pandemic
Goldhaber, Daniel D.; Kane, Thomas J.; McEachin, Andrew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using testing data from 2.1 million students in 10,000 schools in 49 states (plus D.C.), we investigate the role of remote and hybrid instruction in widening gaps in achievement by race and school poverty. We find that remote instruction was a primary driver of widening achievement gaps. Math...
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Economic Shocks and Skill Acquisition : Evidence from a National Online Learning Platform at the Onset of COVID-19
Ganguli, Ina; Haidar, Jamal Ibrahim; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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 telework,...
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