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The COVID-19 pandemic : a threat to higher education?

Bonaccolto-Töpfer, Marina; Castagnetti, Carolina - 2021

Transition to online teaching during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to various concerns about educational quality. So far, researchers have mainly focused on the effects on school teaching. This paper looks at the effects on a large Italian university (University of Pavia,...

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Tutoring in (online) higher education : experimental evidence

Hardt, David; Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes - 2022

Demand for personalized online tutoring in higher education is growing but there is little research on its effectiveness. We conducted an RCT offering remote peer tutoring in micro- and macroeconomics at a German university teaching online due to the Covid-pandemic. Treated students met in small...

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Can peer mentoring improve online teaching effectiveness? : an RCT during the COVID-19 pandemic

Hardt, David; Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes - 2020

Online delivery of higher education has taken center stage but is fraught with issues of student self-organization. We conducted an RCT to study the effects of remote peer mentoring at a German university that switched to online teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mentors and mentees met...

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Assessing digital divides in higher education during the Covid-19 pandemic : exploring an Evaluating e-Learning System Success model

Payton, Brett; Gomez Aurioles, Laura - 2021

The global transition to online classes in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic gave researchers the opportunity to evaluate eLearning in ways never before possible. This study extends a model for Evaluating eLearning System Success (EESS) and uses an information systems approach to...

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E-learning at universities : does starting with difficult questions affect student performance?

Gałkiewicz, Agata Danuta; Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas - 2024

To reduce cheating in written tests and exams, assessors often randomly vary the order of questions across students. However, little is known about the potential unintended side effects of question order. This paper examines whether randomizing students to start with an easier or harder question...

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The expanding landscape of online education : who engages and how they fare

Barrow, Lisa; Morris, Wesley; Sartain, Lauren - 2022

Online offerings at traditional brick-and-mortar universities have become common, though some question if online courses can adequately substitute for the in-person college experience. We explore changes in undergraduate online course enrollment at a large, public 4-year system and the impacts...

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Stakeholder analysis for digital campus development with 5G micro operators

Jurwa, Risto; Matinmikko-Blue, Marja - 2019

Assumingly very few sectors of society can avoid the digital transformation, which has been storming in the recent years. Despite of the digitalization being a global mega trend and an essence to survive in the modern world, it seems that many entities are still struggling in initiating the...

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College application choices in a repeated Deferred Acceptance (DA) Setting : empirical evidence from Croatia

Kovač, Dejan; Neilson, Christopher A.; Raith, Johanna - 2025

novel setting of a dynamic deferred acceptance mechanism as employed in Croatia with hourly information updates and …

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Berufliche Qualifizierung und Digitalisierung : eine empirische Bestandsaufnahme

Klös, Hans-Peter; Seyda, Susanne; Werner, Dirk - 2020

Digitalisierung weiter verstärken. Unternehmen werden gerade in der Krise über ihre Nutzung der technischen Möglichkeiten entscheiden … Qualifizierung niederschwelliger werden kann. Die Anforderungen der Digitalisierung liegen nicht nur im Bereich des IT … Zusammenhang zwischen beruflicher Bildung und Digitalisierung. Die neuen digitalen Technologien wirken dabei als Treiber der …

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Africa's digital solutions to tackle COVID-19

Europäische Investitionsbank - 2020

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