Classrooms vs screens: Learning outcomes from a business school

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IIMB Management Review Pub Date : 2024-09-01 DOI:10.1016/j.iimb.2024.05.003

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Abstract

This paper examines the impact of substituting regular classroom programmes with online classes on students’ academic performance. We compared the change in the delivery mechanism of preparatory courses for two consecutive Master of Business Administration (MBA) batches in one of the top business schools in India. While the first batch studied in a face-to-face classroom setting, the second batch was taught two subjects in an online format, while the third subject continued to be offered in the face-to-face classroom setting. Using a difference-in-difference estimation, we found that the students' performance declined in both the subjects offered online, with the average performance declining by 4.95% and 8.4% in Economics and Accounting, respectively. However, no decline in performance was noted in the third subject of Quantitative Methods, offered in a face-to-face classroom setting. Further, we found a larger drop in scores for students with the lowest academic ability. Our results indicate that a shift to online courses should be accompanied by well-designed pedagogical and curriculum changes to ensure substantive learning, especially for academically weaker students.

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教室与屏幕：商学院的学习成果

本文探讨了以在线课程取代常规课堂课程对学生学业成绩的影响。我们比较了印度一所顶尖商学院连续两批工商管理硕士（MBA）预科课程授课机制的变化。第一批学生在面对面的课堂环境中学习，而第二批学生则以在线形式学习两个科目，第三个科目则继续在面对面的课堂环境中提供。通过差分估算，我们发现学生在两个在线科目上的成绩都有所下降，经济学和会计学的平均成绩分别下降了 4.95% 和 8.4%。然而，以面对面课堂教学形式提供的第三门科目《定量方法》的成绩却没有下降。此外，我们还发现学习能力最低的学生的成绩下降幅度更大。我们的研究结果表明，在向在线课程转变的同时，还应该进行精心设计的教学和课程改革，以确保学生，尤其是学习能力较弱的学生，能够学到实质性的知识。

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期刊介绍： IIMB Management Review (IMR) is a quarterly journal brought out by the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Addressed to management practitioners, researchers and academics, IMR aims to engage rigorously with practices, concepts and ideas in the field of management, with an emphasis on providing managerial insights, in a reader friendly format. To this end IMR invites manuscripts that provide novel managerial insights in any of the core business functions. The manuscript should be rigorous, that is, the findings should be supported by either empirical data or a well-justified theoretical model, and well written. While these two requirements are necessary for acceptance, they do not guarantee acceptance. The sole criterion for publication is contribution to the extant management literature.Although all manuscripts are welcome, our special emphasis is on papers that focus on emerging economies throughout the world. Such papers may either improve our understanding of markets in such economies through novel analyses or build models by taking into account the special characteristics of such economies to provide guidance to managers.