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epaa-5919	Ojha, Manini; Rahman, Mohammad Arshad	Do online courses provide an equal educational value compared to in-person classroom teaching? Evidence from U.S. survey data using quantile regression	2021	21	.pdf	application/pdf	10381	524	50	Allen & Seaman (2016) report that the growth rate of enrollments in online courses is expanding faster than the traditional classroom enrollments in the United States (US).1 Even as academic leaders remain far more positive about traditional and blended pedagogical formats than fully online learning, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has compelled universities and educational institutes to adopt online education as an immediate substitute for in-person classrooms. Allen & Seaman (2007) also suggest that the Southern states represented over one-third of total online enrollments in 2005–06 and the proportion of Southern institutions with fully online programs is steadily rising.11 Our covariate effect calculations indicate that in the Northeast, the probability of favoring online classes 8 Individual’s prior experience with online courses and their performance likely play a role in determining the value they attach to online education.	cache/epaa-5919.pdf	txt/epaa-5919.txt