Online Students Multitask More (Not in a Good Way)
Andrew Lepp wasn’t surprised — and wouldn’t expect most people familiar with higher education to be surprised — by the headline finding of a study he and several colleagues published last week: that students in online courses said they engaged in more noneducational multitasking than did their peers in in-person courses.
“I would have bet anything that students would have multitasked more in online courses,” said Lepp, a professor of recreation, park and tourism management at Kent State University. “In that way this study just confirmed what’s obvious.”
