The Effect of Changing from Campus-Based to Digital Teaching on Student Attendance

Over the last two years the Covid-19 pandemic has forced colleges, university colleges, and universities around the world to switch from campus-based to web-based teaching. The current study examines the effect on students’ attendance rates from this sudden change in the learning environment. I use data from four completions of a single course given to third year bachelor students at the business administration program at a mid-sized university college in Norway to empirically examine how the level- and trend of the attendance rate was affected during the lockdown period. The results show that digital lectures had a significantly higher attendance rate compared with traditional campus-based lectures.