In this chapter, I review the economics literature on for-profit college education in the United
States, assessing what we know about institutional behavior and student outcomes after two …

We use various economic and pedagogical concepts to understand the specificities of
MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses) platforms. We discuss how the private provision of …

Peers affect individual's productivity in the workforce, in education, and in other team‐based
tasks. Using large‐scale language data from an online college course, we measure the …

This study provides empirical evidence related to two critical assumptions in the student
engagement literature in higher education—namely, the malleability of study effort and the …

This study contributes to the growing body of research on peer effects in educational
contexts by examining the peer effects on learning behaviors, which are pivotal in …

Online college courses are a rapidly expanding feature of higher education, yet little
research identifies their effects. Using an instrumental variables approach and data from …

The study aimed to enrich the national online learning context and settle the skeptical
arguments regarding the student's attitude toward online examination and misconduct …

Distance education in a variety of forms has for many years served the needs of many
students. The minimalist definition of distance education is 'education at a …

Internet has enabled businesses to offer their merchandise through web-based applications,
of which recent phenomenon includes online social networks (OSNs). This paper studies the …

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