Year: 2014
Type: report
Abstract: Internet-based educational resources are proliferating rapidly.One concern associated with these (potentially transformative) technological changes is that they will be disequalizing -as many technologies of the last several decades have been -creating superstar teachers and a winner-takeall education system.These important concerns notwithstanding, we contend that a major impact of web-based educational technologies will be the democratization of education: educational resources will be more equally distributed, and lower-skilled teachers will benefit.At the root of our results is the observation that skilled lecturers can only exploit their comparative advantage if other teachers complement those lectures with face-to-face instruction.This complementarity will increase the quantity and quality of face-to-face teaching services, potentially increasing the marginal product and wages of lower-skill teachers.
DOI: 10.3386/w19851
Authors: Daron Acemoglu, David Laibson, John List
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3125708009