Increasing Success in Higher Education: The Relationships of Online Course Taking With College Completion and Time-to-Degree
EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION AND POLICY ANALYSIS(2022)
Abstract
Online courses provide flexible learning opportunities, but research suggests that students may learn less and persist at lower rates compared to face-to-face settings. However, few studies have investigated more distal effects of online education. In this study, we analyzed 6 years of institutional data for three cohorts of students in 13 large majors (N = 10,572) at a public research university to examine distal effects of online course participation. Using online course offering as an instrumental variable for online course taking, we find that online course taking of major-required courses leads to higher likelihood of successful 4-year graduation and slightly accelerated time-to-degree. These results suggest that offering online courses may help students to more efficiently graduate college.
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Key words
higher education,educational policy,technology,computers and learning,online learning,quasi-experimental analysis
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