AN EXAMINATION OF THE EFFECTS OF WEB-BASED TUTORIALS ON ACCOUNTING STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Cheng, Joselina; Swanson, Zane
- Source
- Review of Higher Education & Self-Learning; Jun2011, Vol. 3 Issue 10, p14-28, 15p, 5 Charts
- Subject
- Online education
Accounting students
Educational technology
Universities & colleges
Outcome assessment (Education)
Control groups
Information & communication technologies
- Language
- ISSN
- 19409494
Advances in information communication technology have presented new opportunities and challenges for traditional brick-and-mortar higher education institutions to teach accounting as the demands for e-learning continue to rise. Although advanced technology allows traditional universities in postmodern era to deliver education digitally, faculty who upload text-based lectures into WebCT/Blackboard course site may not create a multi-sensory e-learning environment to address students? learning styles adequately. To investigate students? needs for quality education and web-based learning resources, a quasi-experiment study examined the effects of the use of innovative technology on accounting students? learning outcomes in relation to learning styles. The target population included students with enrollments in hybrid consolidation accounting courses at one southwest university for the spring 2010 semester. Participants were randomly assigned to the control and treatment group. The control group received text-based lectures; whereas the treatment group was provided with multimedia-based learning modules. Both control and treatment groups were administered with pretests and posttests. The treatment group with access to eTutor showed higher gains by one letter grade than that of the control group with lectures. The finding suggests that the use of innovative technology and strategic pedagogy enhanced learning outcomes. Future studies should extend the study due since the knowledge becomes important as more traditional higher education institutions embrace e-learning as essential component to sustain web-based education for students to engage in justin- time skill acquisition and life-long learning in order to better prepare and compete in global economies and knowledge-based societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]