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March 28, 2018

New Study Finds Discrimination and Bias in Online Course Forums

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:03 am

By Henry Kronk, e-Learning Inside

In the new report, “Bias in Online Classes: Evidence from a Field Experiment,” researchers looked into whether or not students and instructors displayed racial or gender biases in online courses. In 124 different MOOCs, the authors “tested for the presence of racial and gender biases in these settings by creating fictional student identities with racial- and gender-connotative names, having these fictional students place randomly assigned comments in the discussion forums, and observing the engagement of other students and instructors with these comments.”

New Study Finds Discrimination and Bias in Online Course Forums

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