Implementing Recorded Lectures: Education Production Function Analysis in Economics Online Courses

Instructor created recorded lectures were introduced to two principles of macroeconomics and two principles of microeconomics online courses to improve student outcomes. Using the education production function, both time spent and access were modeled using a first difference regression and Generalized Method of Moments estimators. Data for this study, covering nine weeks for each course, were collected from the course management system, book publisher and college registrar. Results show that more time spent in the course management system and book publisher’s homework system lead to increased grades while accessing recorded lectures had mixed results.