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New Technologies in Higher Education: Lower Attendance and Worse Learning Outcomes?

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  • Pedro Gomis-Porqueras
  • Juergen Meinecke
  • Jose A. Rodrigues-Neto

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This paper explores the incentives offered to students and instructors by new technologies that grant access to online class materials. We examine the consequences for attendance and composition of live lectures and argue that new technologies reduce attendance, and very likely reduce it differentially.

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  • Pedro Gomis-Porqueras & Juergen Meinecke & Jose A. Rodrigues-Neto, 2011. "New Technologies in Higher Education: Lower Attendance and Worse Learning Outcomes?," Agenda - A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, Australian National University, College of Business and Economics, School of Economics, vol. 18(1), pages 69-84.
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