Online learning might not be so bad for student outcomes

April 21, 2021 Nick Young

Online learning might not be so bad for student outcomes

When it comes to earning a graduate degree, how the student earned their undergraduate degree doesn’t seem to matter.

January 6, 2021 PERbites

Revisiting Our Posts on Online Teaching and Learning

Our 8 previous posts about online learning studies.

December 2, 2020 Nick Young

Students aren’t using online resources to cheat as much as you may think.

Students often use online resources to learn more or because they don’t find course resources accessible.

September 2, 2020 Nick Young

Helping students learn from online self-paced tools

The instructor must set the expectations why students should use the tool.

April 22, 2020 Nick Young

Should you worry about cheating on online exams?

Yes. However, students may also do worse due to taking the test outside of the classroom.

March 25, 2020 Nick Young

Solution Videos and Student Overconfidence

Solution videos can help students learn but they may become overconfident in their abilities.

March 18, 2020 Prasanth

Online delivery of Research Based Assessments

Research conducted across 8 institutions, covering 2 introductory-level course and 10 upper-division courses (for a total of 1879 students), suggests that, even in the worst case, only a small percentage of students engage in behaviors such as using external resources while answering Research Based Assessments and this has a negligible effect on the class average.