At many large universities it is conventional to deliver undergraduate introductory economics courses in a large lecture hall with a live lecturer. However, not surprisingly, casual empiricism suggests that rates of student absenteeism are significantly greater in a large lecture format than in...

The consensus of studies of undergraduate principles of economics is that the online format is inferior to the traditional lecture format. However in the handful of studies of principles taught at the MBA level the evidence tilts to the conclusion of no significant difference. This study...

In this paper we describe how we used Facebook as a complementary tool to our LMS. We collected data on student usage and surveyed student opinion in several online/blended sections. Our hypothesis is that our empirical analysis will find a positive correlation between student usage of Facebook...