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The relationship between attending a lecture in-person, synchronously online or asynchronously online and student grade

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Recently, a synchronous online education mode has been developed and extensively used: livestreams of lectures. Although the literature shows that fully online courses yield worse learning outcomes than those that have a blended format, we argue that livestreams offer the advantages of online education, while not having its drawbacks. We analyze the effects of attending a lecture synchronously online, asynchronously online, or in-person. This is studied for a large undergraduate course in which over 700 students attended and could self-select in the mode of education per lecture. This within-person variance allowed for identifying the effects of the mode of education on their performance for the section in their exam that reflected that lecture's content. No significant differences between attending a lecture synchronously online, asynchronously online, or in-person are found. This paper contributes to the literature by showing the efficacy of a multimodal setup for a course.

Source: The International Journal of Management Education

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijme.2025.101171

Authors: Koen van den Oever, Stephanie Koornneef

Institution: Radboud University Nijmegen

Language: English

Topic: Online and Blended Learning

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $4,130