{"title":"Investigating the Effects of Synchronous versus Asynchronous Online Engagement on Performance of a Large Class","authors":"B. Toh, N. Buchanan","doi":"10.1145/3555009.3555023","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the effects of online engagement in live lectures versus offline studies on students’ performance of an undergraduate Databases module with a large class size of over 400 students. We have discovered that attendance at synchronous (live) online-lectures has very little correlation to students’ performance. Our view is that the change to online learning has caused a considerable shift in study habits. In fact, a significant number of students who had hardly attended any live online-lectures still performed extremely well in the summative assessments, indicating that they were still engaging asynchronously.","PeriodicalId":423863,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3555009.3555023","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This study examined the effects of online engagement in live lectures versus offline studies on students’ performance of an undergraduate Databases module with a large class size of over 400 students. We have discovered that attendance at synchronous (live) online-lectures has very little correlation to students’ performance. Our view is that the change to online learning has caused a considerable shift in study habits. In fact, a significant number of students who had hardly attended any live online-lectures still performed extremely well in the summative assessments, indicating that they were still engaging asynchronously.