Information Technology Transforming Higher Education: A Meta-Analytic Review

ABSTRACT

Information Technology (IT) is rapidly transforming higher education (HE). Past studies concluded that IT positively influences HE students’ learning outcomes. However, these studies either focused on specific IT or utilized formal classroom setting. The present study overcomes these limitations, along with drawing implications by analyzing 72 quantitative peer-reviewed articles. It reveals that: (a) IT highly enhances learning outcomes education subject, while moderately for language, medical and nursing subjects. The learning outcomes for science and technology subjects are low; (b) unexpectedly, general applications are more effective than learning-oriented applications; (c) formal learning environment is more effective; and (d) learning outcomes are higher for longer intervention period (> 1 month) than smaller intervention period (≤ 24 hours).

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Sumedha Chauhan

Sumedha Chauhan is a faculty of Information Systems and Analytics at O.P. Jindal Global University. She completed Fellow Program in Management (FPM) from MDI Gurgaon. She has published multiple research papers in reputed journals and has attended several international conferences. Her research interests include e-commerce and e-learning.

Parul Gupta

Parul Gupta holds doctorate and master’s degree in law, having specialization in Mercantile Law. She earned Ph.D. from Faculty of Law - Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi in the year 2010. Her expertise lies in Business law and Environmental law. Before joining MDI Gurgaon, she served in Army Institute of Management & Technology, Greater Noida for more than a decade. She has published a number of research papers in the journals of repute which includes International Business Review (IBR), Journal of World Business (JWB) and case study published by Ivey Publications.

Shailendra Palvia

Shailendra Palvia is Professor of MIS at Long Island University (LIU) Post. At LIU, he was Director of MIS during 1997–2004. He received his Ph.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota, and B.S. in Chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, India. He has published over 150 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings including Decision Sciences, Communications of the ACM, MIS Quarterly, Information & Management, Communications of AIS. He is Founding Editor (1999–2007) and current editor (since July 2013) of the Journal of IT Case and Application Research (JITCAR).

Mahadeo Jaiswal

Mahadeo Jaiswal is currently Director of Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Sambalpur and also Professor of Information Systems. Prior to this he was Professor and Dean at MDI, Gurgaon. His qualifications include PGPX from MIT Sloan School of Management, USA, PhD in Computer Science from Delhi University and Sr. Fulbright Fellow from Carnegie Mellon University, USA. He has been Visiting Professor at IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Indore. His area of expertise includes Innovation Strategy for Start-ups, Digital Innovation & Platform Eco Systems, Social Entrepreneurship, e-Government, ERP, and IT Strategy. He has published more than 50 research papers.