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I'm curious: how would the achievement gap change if all or most post-secondary education was delivered online instead of at physical colleges/universities?
by jmz92 12y ago
I'm curious: how would the achievement gap change if all or most post-secondary education was delivered online instead of at physical colleges/universities?
- nl 12y agoGiven the mechanism which seems to cause people to drop out (basically, lack of encouragement and/or sense of belonging) you can make arguments both ways. The completion rate for online courses is very low anyway, so it is likely this difference might be immaterial in the noise of that overall low rate.
- zhemao 12y agoI don't think that would change much. This isn't so much about how the kids are being taught but rather about whether or not the working-class kids feel like they belong. Also, online classes are arguably worse for kids who are already doing poorly, since they get less opportunity to ask questions in class or get help from the professor and TAs.
- jacalata 12y agoI know someone who teaches at a community college and she said that student groups who normally do poorly in regular classes do even worse in online courses. Random paper here seems to agree with that: http://www.ashe.ws/images/Gross%20and%20Kleinman%20-%20Need%20for%20Speed.pdf http://www.ashe.ws/images/Gross%20and%20Kleinman%20-%20Need%...