Prof Carolyn Heinrich, "When technology delivers all of the instruction in a classroom: Immediate and longer-term impacts for learners"
I will describe findings from a long-term study of online course-taking in secondary education, which is widely used in U.S. schools to help students make progress toward graduation. The study looked inside educational settings to observe how online courses are used and to assess whether students gain academically through their use, drawing on millions of records of online instructional sessions linked to student records. These records were also linked to data on student educational and labor market outcomes, including credits earned in high school, high school graduation, college enrollment, and labor market earnings. The students who were falling further behind educationally were more likely to be assigned to take their courses online, and they were also typically less prepared academically and fared more poorly in their education and post-high school outcomes. Limited resources both motivated the use of online course-taking systems in schools and constrained the implementation of recommended practices and instructional supports to support student learning.
Date: 26 April 2023, 13:00 (Wednesday, 1st week, Trinity 2023)
Venue: 1 St Giles', 1 St Giles' OX1 3JS
Venue Details: 1 St Giles Seminar Room
Speaker: Professor Carolyn Heinrich (George Eastman Visiting Professor, Balliol College, Oxford)
Organising department: Oxford Internet Institute
Organiser: Ellen Mobbs (Oxford Internet Institute)
Organiser contact email address: events@oii.ox.ac.uk
Host: Dr Lulu Shi (Oxford Internet Institute and Department of Education Oxford)
Booking required?: Required
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Audience: Public
Editor: Ellen Mobbs