Increasing Success in Higher Education: The Relationships of Online Course Taking with College Completion and Time-to-Degree

Autor/inn/en	Fischer, Christian; Baker, Rachel; Li, Qiujie; Orona, Gabe Avakian; Warschauer, Mark
Titel	Increasing Success in Higher Education: The Relationships of Online Course Taking with College Completion and Time-to-Degree
Quelle	In: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 44 (2022) 3, S.355-379 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Fischer, Christian) ORCID (Warschauer, Mark)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3737
DOI	10.3102/01623737211055768
Schlagwörter	Online Courses; Higher Education; Graduation Rate; Time to Degree; Success; Majors (Students); Required Courses; At Risk Students; College Students; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Online course; Online-Kurs; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Erfolg; Pflichtkurs; Collegestudent; Kalifornien
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. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01