Link: http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3259/why-computer-aided-teaching-works-best-in-large-classes

From the Chronicle of Higher Education, a report of a working paper released last week by the National Bureau of Economic Research suggesting students seem most likely to benefit from computer-assisted instruction in large classes with frequent absences.

While the authors caution against drawing too many inferences from this single study, their evidence suggests that:

insofar as computer-assisted instruction is valuable, the scholars suggest, it is because it allows more individually tailored instruction in large, diverse classrooms where teachers find it hard to target each student with the appropriate level of work.