The effectiveness of online teaching and learning tools: Students' perceptions of usefulness in an upper-level accounting course. Issue 3 (1st December 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Abdel-Rahim, Heba
• Is Part Of: Learning and teaching. Volume 14:Issue 3(2021)
• Page Start: 52
• Page End: 69
• Publication Date: 2021-12-01
• Subjects: COVID-19 pandemic -- discussion boards -- effectiveness -- learner perspective -- online teaching and learning (OTL) -- virtual hours; Social sciences -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Periodicals; 300.711
• DOI: 10.3167/latiss.2021.140304
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1755-2273

Abstract

Abstract: This study investigates how students in a distance-learning upper-level accounting course perceive the effectiveness of different online teaching and learning (OTL) tools that are commonly used in business courses taught online. This topic is of critical importance, especially as the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed more courses to be OTL. A mid-semester anonymous survey in an Accounting course at a public US university was conducted to measure students' perceptions about different OTL course tools. Students were asked to provide their general assessment about how effective these tools were and how they believe these tools helped them learn. Analyses and discussions of the effectiveness of different tools and their link to earlier literature and how instructors can utilise the results of the OTL survey are presented.