Student learning performance and satisfaction with traditional face-to-face classroom versus online learning: Evidence from teaching Statistics for Business
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Abstract
In this research, we investigated whether business students enrolled in a statistics course gained more by engaging in traditional face-to-face (FTF) learning or online learning. Empirical evidence suggested that students learned statistics more effectively when engaged with an instructor in a traditional FTF classroom versus through online learning; however, when the option of teaching virtually in fully online (ONL) classes was available, students successfully learned about statistics whether in a traditional FTF classroom or a ONL learning experience. In addition, evidence suggested that students’ overall satisfaction with the course and the instructor was higher in the FTF setting than in the ONL setting. Evidence also suggested that offering online zoom lecture meetings in the ONL setting remarkably enhanced students’ satisfaction with the course and the instructor and, importantly, reduced the gap in effective instruction between traditional FTF and ONL settings.
期刊介绍:
E-Learning and Digital Media is a peer-reviewed international journal directed towards the study and research of e-learning in its diverse aspects: pedagogical, curricular, sociological, economic, philosophical and political. This journal explores the ways that different disciplines and alternative approaches can shed light on the study of technically mediated education. Working at the intersection of theoretical psychology, sociology, history, politics and philosophy it poses new questions and offers new answers for research and practice related to digital technologies in education. The change of the title of the journal in 2010 from E-Learning to E-Learning and Digital Media is expressive of this new and emphatically interdisciplinary orientation, and also reflects the fact that technologically-mediated education needs to be located within the political economy and informational ecology of changing mediatic forms.