Enrollment and Student Performance in Online and On-Campus Undergraduate Communications Courses
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Mark Piwinsky, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, United States ; Lacey Fulton, Clarion University, United States ; Brittany Fleming, Slippery Rock University, United States ; Mary Beth Leidman, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, United States
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, in Washington, DC, United States Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), San Diego, CA
Abstract
Online education is seen as a way to provide new options for students and potential new enrollments for institutions. In examining online and on-campus enrollments and student performance in undergraduate communications classes, this study found there is a degree of displacement as some on-campus enrollments move online. However, class sizes tend to be smaller in online sections. In addition, while there was no difference in mean section GPAs between online and on-campus courses, online classes saw a higher percentage of student non-success in failures, withdrawals and incomplete grades.
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Piwinsky, M., Fulton, L., Fleming, B. & Leidman, M.B. (2016). Enrollment and Student Performance in Online and On-Campus Undergraduate Communications Courses. In Proceedings of E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning (pp. 106-112). Washington, DC, United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 10, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/173926/.
© 2016 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
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