Accounting tele teaching lectures: issues of interaction and performance

Abstract

This paper provides empirical evidence on two aspects related to using tele teaching to deliver accounting lectures. The first issue examines student opinion on whether tele teaching lectures provide educational interactions between the learner and the instructor similar to face-to-face teaching. The second issue examines the subject performance of students who were tele taught against a similar group that were lectured face-to-face. Results showed that students viewed the tele taught lectures as lacking in learner–instructor interactions however the performance differences were not significant.

Keywords:

• Tele teaching lecture
• Face-to-face
• Learner–instructor

Acknowledgements

The author acknowledges the helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper from the co-editor Tony Tinker and the referees, as well as the statistical assistance received from Dr. Mindi Nanth from Monash University Gippsland Campus.

Notes

1 The number of students in the treatment semester that had obtained a final mark was different to the number of students attending the final lecture (n = 159) and those participating in the survey (n = 120).